Abstract: . . .  emotionally multivalenced representations of the self and others. On the one hand, results have consistently demonstrated that patients with BPD do tend to represent others’ internal states with less complexity and differentiation than patients with other disorders such as ma- jor depression and, indeed, they do tend  . . .
. . .  & Gergely, 2000; Fonagy, Target, Gergely,Allen, & Bateman, 2003!. “Unresolved” individuals show problems with meta-cognitive monitor- ing while trying to provide narratives; that is, they have difficulty recognizing when their narratives are difficult to follow or are incon- stant or contradictory. Psychodynamics of BPD 939 Page 14 Some of the most interesting findings vis- à-vis borderline object relations pertain to the complexity and differentiation of representa- tions of people, that is, whether individuals with BPD can maintain coherent, complex, emotionally multivalenced representations . . .
. . .  individuals show problems with meta-cognitive monitor- ing while trying to provide narratives; that is, they have difficulty recognizing when their narratives are difficult to follow or are incon- stant or contradictory. Psychodynamics of BPD 939 Page 14 Some of the most interesting findings vis- à-vis borderline object relations pertain to the complexity and differentiation of representa- tions of people, that is, whether individuals with BPD can maintain coherent, complex, emotionally multivalenced representations of the self and others. On the one hand, results have consistently demonstrated that . . .
. . .  Empir- ically, BPD is associated with a tendency to dissociatesee Gershuny & Thayer, 1999!, and dissociation is now a component of one of the diagnostic criteria for the disorder. Another aspect of the sense of self is the sense of agency. Experience of self as agentic is often disrupted in borderline personality by a pattern in which impulses are acted upon so immediately that the self is not experience as the author of the act. Borderline patients often react so irrationally or unpredictably in the face of intense, negative emotions that they feel unable to make sense of or explain their behaviorse.g., . . .
. . .  psychodynamics Page 1 The psychodynamics of borderline personality disorder: A view from developmental psychopathology REBEKAH BRADLEY and DREW WESTEN Emory University Abstract This article provides a contemporary view of the psychodynamics of borderline personality disorderBPD! from a developmental psychopathology perspective. We first briefly describe the evolution . . .
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