Discuss fundamental psychopathology borderline personality

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Problem: Describe it as involving ego weakness with poor control of impulses, irrational thinking despite intact reality testing. He postulated that difficulties in the Mahlerian stage of separation individuation during childhood lead to internalized object relations deficits, in that there is impairment of the essential task of the ego regarding differentiating self from external objects & integrating self & object under the influence of libidinal & aggressive derivatives. He states that this lack of integrated selfconcept & of the relationship of self with objects results in what Erikson called Identity diffusion. Buie and Adler relate that the fundamental psychopathology in Borderline personality disorder involves annihilation anxiety because of inadequacy & instability of holding soothing introjects with an inability to internalize real caring relationships necessary for the development of these introjects. Can you explain that in plain English?

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