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Object relations in borderline adolescents.

D Westen1, P Ludolph, H Lerner

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109-1346.

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
|May 1, 1990
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Borderline adolescents exhibit a negative view of relationships and struggle with emotional investment. Their understanding of social causality is simplistic, though their object representations can be complex.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • Pathological object relations are central to borderline personality disorder.
  • Empirical research on borderline object relations, especially in adolescents, is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically examine object relations in borderline adolescents.
  • To compare object relations dimensions between borderline adolescents, psychiatric comparisons, and normal controls.

Main Methods:

  • Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) was used to assess four dimensions of object relations.
  • Participants included adolescent borderlines, psychiatric comparison subjects, and normal controls.

Main Results:

  • Borderline adolescents showed a malevolent object world and difficulty with non-need-gratifying emotional investment.

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  • They tended to attribute motivations illogically and idiosyncratically.
  • Object representations in borderline adolescents were found to be complex, challenging some psychoanalytic theories.

    • Conclusions:

    • Findings support some psychoanalytic views on borderline object relations while challenging others.
    • The complexity of object representations suggests development beyond a preoedipal arrest in borderline adolescents.