Intended to shield the borderline from a barrage of contradictory feelings and images – and from the anxiety of trying to reconcile those images – the splitting mechanism often and ironically achieves the opposite effect: the frays in the personality fabric become full-fledged rips; the sense of her own identity and the identities of others shift even more dramatically and frequently.
-Jerold J. Kreisman
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