Sentences with phrase «long fear of abandonment»

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But it's not long before her underwritten life (she has no job or friends) and Calvin's jealousy and fear of abandonment kick in, and he's back at his typewriter literally changing her.

The difference between a narcissistic and borderline personality organization is simply that the borderline personality directly and continuously experiences this fundamental self - inadequacy and abandonment fear, which leads to tremendous ongoing disruptions to self - identity and problematic affect regulation, whereas the narcissistic personality has created a psychological defense of grandiose self - inflation against the experience of core - self inadequacy and abandonment fears, thereby allowing for greater superficial self - cohesion and superficial affect regulation (as long as the narcissistic defense holds).

«The conceptualization of the core pathology of BPD as stemming from a highly frightened, abused child who is left alone in a malevolent world, longing for safety and help but distrustful because of fear of further abuse and abandonment, is highly related to the model developed by Young (McGinn & Young, 1996)... Young elaborated on an idea, in the 1980s introduced by Aaron Beck in clinical workshops (D.M. Clark, personal communication), that some pathological states of patients with BPD are a sort of regression into intense emotional states experienced as a child.

These layers, also known as a «false self» were erected long ago to avoid painful issues such as abandonment, rejection, fear of intimacy, boundary violations and other forms of suffering.