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SHAME, COMPASSION, AND THE "BORDERLINE" PERSONALITY
by Donald L. Nathanson, MD

PSYCHIATRIC CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
VOLUME 17
NUMBER 4
DECEMBER 1994


This is a seminal article that gives a synopses of the history of the diagnosis and very succinct and articulate summary of affect theory and redefines "borderline" personality disorder in terms of being "simply" a severe reaction and sensitivity to shame.

In so doing this article is seminal as it becomes a model for a new language for all of psychiatry as and a challenge for it to reevaluate its entire language. To shift form a "labeling" system based on an outside in system of classification based on of sets of behavior to an inside out system based on what the person is telling us they feel.

Dr. Lynch

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