title: The borderline-narcissistic personality disorder continuum.
abstract: The author describes the usefulness of conceptualizing patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders along a continuum, using three main developmental lines. A clinical example demonstrates progression, during psychotherapy, from the borderline end of the continuum to the narcissistic personality disorder end.
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014167:Transference, Psychology