borderline personality

[Alec Ramsdell]

Kelley wrote:
> At 01:07 PM 3/6/02 -0800, Alec Ramsdell wrote:
> >Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > > First -- the diagnosis is a suspect one;
> >
> >I've heard the same, that it's a dubious
> >classification.  As such, it would be a case of the
> >analyst gaving birth to a new illness as a way of
> >treating his own anxieties of diagnosis.  Also, why
> >would it be endemic to the *bourgeois*
> ego--couldn't
> >working class folk suffer from it as well.
> 
> 
> I wish I could remember where I read the same. It
> was a very good debunking 
> of BPD which effectively showed that _everyone_ is
> BPD in the same way that 
> _everyone_ is an addict to AA "recruiters" (see,
> _Becoming An Alcoholic, 
> Rudy) or _everyone_ is a co-dependent or enabler in
> Al-anon (see feminist 
> critiques of those progs).

I wonder how many court cases BPD has made a
difference in . . .

Alec

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