title: Minimal brain dysfunction and borderline personality adjustment.
abstract: Clinical experience shows that many patients diagnosed as having a borderline personality structure show a history of minimal brain dysfunction in childhood. Neurologically based dysfunctions create disruptions of drive level, perception, basic language structure, and cognition which form a constitutional basis for the distortions of early object relations. A treatment program considering both biogenic and psychogenic etiology is outlined.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012917:Social Adjustment