On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Doug Henwood wrote:
> I'm way behind, and just catching up, but as I remember it, the 70s
> were about narcissism, both in psychoanalysis & pop culture. Kernberg
> wrote about borderline personalities along with narcissists, but it
> never got the buzz that NPD did until more recently.
Fwiw, Lasch talks about borderline extensively and uses both terms synonmyously, with borderline treated as the original term. I'm pretty sure Kovel did as well. But perhaps they were outliers. Are there people who explicitly distinguish the two?
Michale