title: Sociocultural conceptions of the borderline personality.
abstract: Although sympathetic to most analytic conceptions of the origins of borderline personality disorder, an addendum reflecting the recent and divisive impact of rapid social and cultural changes is proposed. Specifically noted are social customs that exacerbate rather than remediate early errant parent-child relationships and the diminished power of once reparative institutions that no longer compensate for these ubiquitous early problems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.
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authors.lastname: Millon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003468:Cultural Evolution; D019049:Developed Countries; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D012926:Social Control, Formal; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors