title: [The borderline syndrome - a sign of our times].
abstract: In conclusion, I would like to say until about 30 to 40 years ago, the patients we saw in our clinical practices presented mainly mono-symptomatic disturbances. Now the picture tends to be multi-symptomatic. It is possible that stronger Victorian influences on ego disciplines were responsible for the mono-symptomatic pattern; in any case, at present, the ego-self boundaries seem weakened, more "permissive", yielding and permeable and this may account for the more multi-symptomatic picture.
mesh_terms: D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012569:Schizotypal Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D012922:Social Change; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Das Borderland-Syndrom - ein Zeichen unserer Zeit.