title: Transitional experience of a borderline patient.
abstract: Because transitional objects and relatedness are often important developmental aspects of the borderline personality structure, the therapist may gain significant information by following the metamorphosis of transitional relatedness as it evolves during psychotherapy. The case presented describes a young woman's use of her own body as a transitional object after a childhood in which she had been used similarly by her mother.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011187:Posture; D011613:Psychotherapy