The borderline-narcissistic personality disorder continuum
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 138 (1), 46-50
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.138.1.46
Abstract
The usefulness of conceptualizing patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders along a continuum, using 3 main developmental lines, is described. A clinical example demonstrates progression, during psychotherapy, from the borderline end of the continuum to the narcissistic personality disorder end.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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