Episode 074 - Borderline Personality Disorder

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

While psychiatric diagnostic labels often reify the complexities of psychological dynamics, they can also orient us to the essential qualities of a particular emotional and behavioral field. BPD is characterized by difficulty with affect regulation, intense and unstable interpersonal relationships, impulsive behavior, and a tendency toward highly polarized emotions: idealization/elation versus devaluation/despair. BPD is associated with early relational deficits, especially in caretakers’ capacity to maintain connection when their child is angry or aggressive.

If intense early emotional states have not been well moderated, they can take on the force of emotional tsunamis, overwhelm the ego, and lead to impetuous and self-harming behaviors. A deep therapeutic and human process can re-inspire the possibility that one can find one’s center in a human relationship.

Dream

"A dog-like creature is climbing on my mother’s shoulder, wounding her ribs with its claws. It is trying to hug her shoulder while she is attempting to get rid of it. The brown dog is crying desperately. I am there as well and turn around to avoid seeing the scene. My mother pulls the creature to the floor, violently opens its mouth and pours poison into it. The brown dog is crying desperately. I am there as well and turn around to avoid seeing the scene."

References

Blog: Lifeinabind.com

Book: Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder; Paul and Randi Kreger

Book: Understanding the Borderline Mother; Christine Lawson

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:03.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,
0:09.0	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.0	I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. So today we're going to enter into some very sensitive territory as we discuss borderline personality disorder.
0:49.2	And this was a kind of early initiation for me, even when I was going through my social work program,
0:56.1	my first internship was in an inpatient psychiatric hospital that specialized in the treatment of borderline disorders,
1:04.0	particularly when it became so severe or life-threatening
1:08.0	that people had to be hospitalized for their own safety.
1:11.0	You know, I came into a significant knowledge about the
1:15.3	magnitude of suffering, the dangerous self-injuring behaviors that sometimes happen,
1:20.8	the kind of anguish that early childhood deprivations, and how deep in the structure
1:30.1	of the psyche that have sufferings and unfortunate structures lay
1:38.0	and really the very long road
1:41.0	to have incremental healing.
1:45.6	All of us determined to be sensitive and respectful,
1:49.2	we're going to try to grapple with this topic. Well, I'm wondering if we should just try to define it a little bit maybe in terms of the
1:59.0	diagnostic and statistical manual just so that we for listeners who might not be familiar with it and
2:05.2	and then of course I'd like to immediately express some reservations about the way
2:11.6	the diagnosis is configured, but what are the diagnostic criteria for BPD?
2:19.6	It's like intense fear of abandonment, going to extreme measures to avoid abandonment,
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