Minimal Brain Dysfunction and Borderline Personality Adjustment
- 1 July 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 33 (3) , 391-403
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1979.33.3.391
Abstract
Clinical experience shows that many patients diagnosed as having a borderline personality structure show a history of minimal brain dysfunction in childhood. Neurologically based dysfunctions create disruptions of drive level, perception, basic language structure, and cognition which form a constitutional basis for the distortions of early object relations. A treatment program considering both biogenic and psychogenic etiology is outlined.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: