BORDERLINE PERSONALITY-DISORDERS AS EXPRESSION OF STRUGGLING FOR CONFORMITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Regarding differential diagnosis and therapy, borderline personality d isorders represent an enormous challenge to psychiatric-psychotherapeu tic management. From the point of view of recent cognitive sciences, s everal considerations can be established regarding the pathogenesis of splitting phenomena which are related to philosophical models about c ognition and consciousness. These are discussed with regard to process es of the genesis of the self in analytical psychology as well as in r elation to present-times cultural processes.