Sentences with phrase «pathological fear of abandonment»

There must be a pathological fear of abandonment as well as the lack of empathy and the need and ability to manipulate and dominate others.The alienator may have a «splitting» personality which is a disorder that tends to deny them the ability to hold opposing thoughts, feelings, or beliefs about others.

Feathers» hearty competence barely conceals an almost pathological fear of abandonment stemming from his complicated and violent childhood.

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«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.