TY  - JOUR
T1  - The borderline syndrome: A behavioral study of ego functions.
AU  - Greenfield NS
Y1  - 1969/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740130127014
JO  - Archives of General Psychiatry
SP  - 125
EP  - 126
VL  - 20
IS  - 1
N2  - Charles Dudley Warner's oft-quoted observation about the weather may aptly be applied to the taking of a more rigorous approach to the conceptual problems of psychopathology—lots of talk but not much doing. This volume represents a distinguished effort to do something about the problem and it will be read and discussed by many thoughtful clinicians and psychiatric researchers.The research which is reported in this book began with a thesis, indeed a prejudice, shared by many who deplore the anecdotal nature and conceptual sloppiness of much of the thinking in contemporary psychiatry. It is an argument against a major—and to this reviewer an alarming—trend in American psychiatry: the increasing tendency to confuse humanism and humanitarianism with disregard for scientific rigor. This Zeitgeist tends to downgrade the significance of knowledge and to equate empathic know-nothingness with respect for the dignity and
SN  - 0003-990X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740130127014
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740130127014
ER  -