What causes Borderline Personality Disorder and its definitions?
• vulnerability vs invalidation • active passivity (tendency to be passive when confronted with a problem and actively seek a rescuer) vs apparent competence (appearing to be capable when in reality internally things are falling apart) • unremitting crises vs inhibited grief. Kernberg’s Borderline Personality Organization • Diagnoses of BPO are based on three categories of criteria. The first, and most important, category, comprises two signs: • the absence of psychosis (i.e., the ability to perceive reality accurately) • impaired ego integration – a diffuse and internally contradictory concept of self. Kernberg is quoted as saying, “Borderlines can describe themselves for five hours without your getting a realistic picture of what they’re like.
