Josh Clark

Because borderline personality disorder is one of those terms that has taken on its own meaning in the general population.

But if you stop and think about it, it doesn't really reveal much about what it's describing.

It's just one of those terms.

Yeah, and that goes back to a jerk named Adolph Stern who really jerked it up back in 1938.

Yeah.

Yeah, and psychosis is what we would still consider psychosis.

But under psychoanalysis, psychoneurosis is what we call like anxiety, depression, those kinds of mental illnesses.

So I guess Adolf Stern wasn't really that big of a jerk because he really kind of did combine them appropriately.

It was Otto Kernberg who was the serious jerk in this situation.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's pretty quick for something you just started to identify.

And five years later, it makes it in the DSM because they don't churn those DSMs out like, you know, every few months.

It takes years to put one together.

So Kernberg seemed to have stumbled onto something that was worth looking at very, very, very quickly.

Yeah.

Yeah, we'll talk about that.

I think we can kind of pepper it throughout, you know.

Okay, sure.

But, yes, there is a school of thought that basically says BPD is not a personality disorder.