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FOR SOME YEARS NOW, INTENSIVE WORK with patients of borderline personality (Kernberg 1975) has persuaded me that the self is the pivotal factor in personality theory and psychopathology. So it is that I welcome this opportunity to participate in the burgeoning discussion of the subject.
What has been the problem, for some decades, with respect to the theory of the self? In my view two major orientations, both deeply concerned with achieving scientific rigor, tried to dismiss