title: Emotional and cognitive factors in the borderline profile.
abstract: Profiles of ego functions of borderline patients are studied. Three ego functions were found to be significantly more disturbed: reality testing, object relations, and defense mechanisms. Further analysis of these and their subfunctions reveals a significant difference between emotional and cognitive factors. Emotional-internal functions are the more disturbed. This consistent difference illuminates the style of functioning of borderline patients.
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D009497:Neurotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011936:Reality Testing