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On the development of the "borderline-child-to-be"
1Department of Psychiatry.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|July 1, 1986
Abstract:
A model of the development of the borderline child is presented. It is organized around three central themes: early experiences of being overwhelmed (trauma); the evolution of developmental deficits; and desperate reliance on ultimately maladaptive survival mechanisms for coping.