title: Borderline defenses and Rorschach responses: a critique of Lerner, Albert, and Walsh.
abstract: Collapsing DSM-III schizotypal and borderline groups to form a borderline population is unwarranted when the results are then related to borderline personality organization. In a comparison of overlapping scoring systems for inferring defensive operations, Lerner, Albert, and Walsh intertwine fact and theory extravagantly and are not justified by their chosen populations nor their assumptions about the theories involved.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Cornell University Medical College, Westchester Division, The New York Hospital, White Plains 10605, USA.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Carr