Borderline Personality Disorder

This Jungian Life Podcast · Aug 29, 2019 · 1h 3m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠While psychiatric diagnostic labels often reify the complexities of psychological dynamics, they can also orient us to the essential qualities of a particular emotional and behavioral field. BPD is characterized by difficulty with affect regulation, intense and unstable interpersonal relationships, impulsive behavior, and a tendency toward highly polarized emotions: idealization/elation versus devaluation/despair. BPD is associated with early relational deficits, especially in caretakers’ capacity to maintain connection when their…