Shapeshifting Borderline, Morphing Narcissist: Identity Disturbance

Types of identity disturbance or diffusion in Borderline and Narcissistic patients: Cyclical, Allotropic, Object-related.

Autobiographical memory (narrative), dissociation, and core identity.

Splitting and other primitive defenses and their role in identity disturbance.

LITERATURE

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