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Minimal Brain Dysfunction and Borderline Personality Adjustment

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.

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