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Suslick reviews current ideas concerning identity. He presents clinical data to show the pathology of identity in borderline cases, although he views problems of this kind as universal. He sees personal identity as being established early in life, arising from the circumstances of the individual's relationship to his caretakers and setting a lifetime organizing pattern. Several special types of identity pathology are considered common, such as malignant and reactive.