Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have been described as having a “black hole of need.” They can be friendly one minute, and “turn on you like a snake” the next. Therapists working with individuals who have BPD are advised to be prepared to “look into the heart of darkness.”1 Indeed, patients who have this disorder have described themselves as “living in the dead zone.”2 Yet the same individuals also are described as “intelligent, articulate survivors who are motivated to get better.”
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