• ARTICLES, Special Section, XIVth Biennial Conference of the EPCA - 2018

On construing a disorder: An unusual case of borderline.

Dimčović, N.

Keywords:
DSM-IV; personality disorder; personal construct psychotherapy; constructivism

Abstract:
A young man came to psychotherapy, claiming that he had Borderline Personality Disorder. The problem was his lifelong emotional reaction to rejection. As a child he was diagnosed as having enuresis, encopresis, ADHD and depression. When well, he acted as an able person who had worked in many capacities. Did he really suffer from BPD? Was he now, at the age of 35, acting as ‘borderline’, as ‘normal’, or both? We investigated his many roles comprising his dominant narrative, and tried to find out ways for him to break the cycle.