[46주차] Disorders of Personality: 19. Unstable Styles, Borderline Types, Cyclophrenic Disorders: The UBC Spectrum(pp. 919-922)

UBC Moderate (Abnormal) Adult Borderline Personality Types [CT-7]

Impulsive borderlines typically are structurally defective UBC abnormal variants of their less pathological counterparts, primarily the unstable, the histrionic, and the antisocial personalities. Each is evasive, superficial, and seductive.
However, at the borderline level, strategies are instrumentally less successful than heretofore.
former histrionics: ...an irrational and superficial euphoria in which they lose all sense of propriety and judgment, and race manically from one activity to another.
former antisocial: For some, the struggle to free themselves from the restrictions of social custom results in impetuous and irresponsible behaviors.
Fearing a permanent loss of attention and esteem, they may succumb for brief periods to hopelessness and self-deprecation. 심하면 현실왜곡 양상으로 발전함.

Simply stated, we can say that the petulant borderline’s overt symptoms are more intense and that psychotic episodes occurwith somewhat greater frequency than in the unstable and negativist.
Petulant borderlines may be best characterized by their extreme unpredictability and by their restless, irritable, impatient, and complaining behaviors.
Petulant borderlines may be best characterized by their extreme unpredictability and by their restless, irritable, impatient, and complaining behaviors.
- Typically, they are defiant, disgruntled, and discontent, as well as stubborn, sullen, pessimistic, and resentful.
Despite their anger and resentment, petulant borderlines fear separation, and are desirous of achieving affection and love; in short, they are ambivalent, trapped by conflicting inclinations to ‘‘move toward, away or against others,’’ as Horney (1950) might put it.
UBC 다른 아형과 달리 일관된 정서적 지지를 받아본 적이 없을 가능성이 높음.

its distinguishing feature as a personality pattern is that it overlies a more basic or evolved ambivalent and unstable personality.
The estrangement, invalidism, and cognitive disorganization of these decompensated patients emerge following the disintegration of a moderately or abnormal borderline pattern of coping; thus, the syndrome reflects one further step in pathological severity that began with one of several milder personality patterns (e.g., unstable, dependent, negativistic).