Attachment and borderline personality disorder.

摘要: The author outlines his concept of reflective function or mentalization, which is defined as the capacity to think about mental states in oneself and others. He presents evidence suggest that for awareness a child's caregiver increases likelihood secure attachment, turn facilitates development mentalization child. proposes attachment relationship offers child chance explore mind caregiver, this way learn minds; he formulates model birth psychological self variation on Cartesian cogito: "My thinks me thinking therefore I exist thinker." This then applied provide insight into some personality-disordered individuals who were victims childhood abuse. (1) experience early trauma may defensively inhibit their mentalize avoid having caregiver's wish harm them; (2) characteristics severe borderline personality disorder be rooted developmental pathology associated with inhibition. qualifications model, argues therapeutic effect psychoanalysis depends its activate patients' ability evolve an thus find meaning own other people's behavior.