“Although depression as an affect is found in several of the borderline categories, it does not correspond with that seen in the depressive syndrome. The borderline depression is a feeling of loneliness and isolation.”

Source: The borderline syndrome, (1968), p. 95

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American psychiatrist and neurologist 1900–1993

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