Borderline syndrome in adolescence. Discussion apropos of a clinical case
Botbol, M.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 59(25): 1907-1911
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 6308827 Document Number: 204877
The "border-line" syndrome in adolescence is typified, not only by a suggestive symptomatology, but above all by a stable and specific abnormal structure of the ego originating in a developmental arrest. This syndrome is discussed with reference to the clinical case reported here. Although, from a purely semeiological point of view, this adolescent had an acute psychotic episode, this condition was related to a transformation of the ego in which the separation-individualization process was involved. The treatment which was initiated is based on this psychopathological explanation.