title: Dracula. Disorders of the self and borderline personality organization.
abstract: It has been proposed that Bram Stoker's novel Dracula can best be understood as a dramatic, hyperbolic, and fantastic expression of themes consistent with contemporary psychoanalytic conceptions of borderline personality disorder organization. Such an understanding may, in turn, shed further light on the nature of the intrapsychic world and experiences of borderline patients. Excerpts from the novel can be used to support the conceptualization of recent contributions to object relations theory and the understanding of borderline personality organization. It is uncanny how consistent Dracula's characteristics are to the generally seen complaints of patients suffering from this disorder.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Raines
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Raines
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Singer
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation