Transitional object use and borderline psychopathology

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The authors examined whether transitional object use distinguishes borderline patients from patients with other personality disorders or schizophrenia and from normal subjects. One hundred five subjects were given a structural interview to assess present and past transitional object use. The borderline group had the highest scores on the interview, and the group with nonborderline axis 11 diagnoses the lowest. Although transitional object use was not specific to the borderline diagnosis, it did emerge as a potentially useful developmental and psychodynamic marker for borderline persons.

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