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Clinical Application

Treating Borderline Phenomena across Diagnostic Categories

Pages 4-10
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This paper defines and discusses borderline phenomena found across various diagnostic categories. The authors divide these phenomena into six groups (which overlap to some degree): 1) quick entry into transference relationships, 2) inviting symbiosis with rapid switches between Victim and Persecutor roles, 3) projective chain redefinitions, 4) grandiosity with rapid shifts between its poles (minimization-maximization), 5) alternating between the passive behaviors of “doing nothing” and agitation, and 6) escalation in intensity and severity of games. Examples and therapeutic interventions are given for each phenomena.

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Mirjana Divac-Jovanovic

Mirjana Divac-Jovanovic, M.A., CM, works at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Sonja Radojkovic, CM, also a clinical psychologist, works at the general health polyclinic, “Dr. Milutin Ivkovic,” department of mental health in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.