Borderline people also show great difficulties in controlling rage; they are unusually impulsive, they fall in and out of love suddenly; they tend to idealize other people and then abruptly despise them. ... They have an inability to nurture and comfort themselves when they become upset, and an inability to control the impulses toward the expression, through action, of love and hate that most people are able restrain. ... Object Relations, In contrast to Freud's understanding, is a set of theories that are based on the foundation that relationships, beginning with the mother-infant dyad...

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