Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Originally believed to describe people who fluctuated between neurosis and psychosis. Now described as personality disorder. Contrasting BPD with Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD): Prominence of anger and rage, as in ASPD. In addition, experience of Pain, Remorse, Self-destructive behavior. BPD Syndrome: Central feature is instability in Interpersonal relationships, Behavior, Mood, Self-image. Diagnostic Criteria Includes: Fear of abandonment, Intense, unstable relationships, Identity disturbance, Self-damaging impulsivity in sex, substance abuse + Suicidal behavior or self-mutilation, Chronic sense of emptiness, Lack of control of anger. Gender Socialization and Personality Disorders: ASPD-Anger turned outward against others; BPD-Anger turned inward. Dysphoria in BPD: Overwhelming sense of feeling bad; state of distress, triggered by real or imagined loss. Dysphoric state is so powerful, must try to end self-injury and self-abuse. Find person to comfort and modulate feelings. Splitting in BPD: Tendency to be unable to tolerate ambivalent feelings, and to split them off into views of others as: all good//all bad.