title: Multiple personality and borderline personality disorder.
abstract: The authors offer their theory that multiple personality represents a "special instance" of borderline personality disorder, that the introjects are composed of a representation of the self, a representation of the object, and an affective bond.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D011385:Projection; D012094:Repression, Psychology