Cycle 21 - Flashcard Set 2
What is the internal quality of many borderline patients’ minds?
A kind of absolute quality, all or nothing.
What are borderline patients often uncompromising about?
Others and themselves.
What happens if a borderline patient doesn’t fit their ideal view of a person?
They feel like a failure, worthless and it justifies self-hatred.
What is part of a therapist’s work with borderline patients?
To help them develop a more realistic acceptance of what it is to be human and not be so perfectionistic.
How can a therapist help a borderline patient develop a more realistic acceptance of what it is to be human?
By helping them observe their system and realize their internal standard is their creation and can be modified.
What do we all have to deal with as human beings?
Emotions, some of which come from evolutionary periods when humans existed in societies well before the kind of civilized society we live in.
What is part of a psychodynamic view of the individual?
That there are all these competing moving forces, our drives, the prohibitions of society, our internal prohibitions based on our value system.
What is not easy to find according to the psychodynamic view of the individual?
The balance of competing moving forces, our drives, the prohibitions of society, our internal prohibitions based on our value system.
What is particularly not easy for borderline people?
To find the balance of their urges and fit them into a system that’s both socially acceptable and morally acceptable to them.
What might a borderline person’s value system be skewed towards according to the text?
Towards the idea of having to be perfect.
What might a borderline person’s value system tell them about any manifestation of aggression?
That it is wrong and makes them a horrible person.
What happens if a borderline person hasn’t mastered the integration of their urges?
They don’t have a full sense of who they are.
