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WHEN DIANE WAS 19 MONTHS OLD, HER MOTHER JUMPED FROM A cliff, to her death. Though the facts of the suicide were repeatedly explained to her, and though she verbally acknowledged them, for the first two weeks after it, she inquired into her mother's whereabouts and when she would return. Then she began overeating, became very clingy, tentative, unhappy, and prone to spells of crying. Increasingly she feared that people she loved would either be hurt or die, and often she herself fell. At first, her falls resulted in little more than scrapes and bruises, but by the time her analysis began, at age 4, they were placing her in considerable danger. At