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17 Borderline Personality Disorder




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This article is from the Psychology FAQ, by Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren roffe@tag.uio.no with numerous contributions by others.

17 Borderline Personality Disorder



Arnold Becker is a sucessful lawyer at a firm in Los Angeles. His
domestic life, however, is not so sucessful; as a matter of fact, to
his own great dissatisfaction he finds himself chasing one
relationship after the other.

Nevertheless Arnold succeeds in building some sort of a friendship
with an elderly gentleman with whom he can discuss his problems.
During one of their encounters, the elderly gentleman complaints of a
strong heartburn, receiving little empathy from Arnold who is immersed
in his own troubles. They both exchange concerns for their respective
ailments until the elderly gentleman falls on top of his desk,
obviously the victim of a sudden and fatal stroke.

Arnold steps forward to his friend and takes his pulse. Finding no
signs of life, he exclaims: ``Great! Now I have to develop intimacy
with an entirely different person.'' Arnold Becker seems to suffer
from Borderline Personality Disorder.

 

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