Posted by so on July 18, 2005, at 15:21:50
In reply to Why Admin might stir up emotions...**poss trigger, posted by gardenergirl on July 18, 2005, at 15:11:51
The persistant use of passive declarations in this essay reveals it as the product of an authoritarian belief system. "Must" "Is" and "Will" comprise the rational basis for the essay. And who says what "Must" "Is" or "will" be? The authority who wrote the essay? But what evidence do we have for the psuedoscientific declarations? None other than the author's own constructs.
It is no coincidence she builds on the neferious catch-all diagnosis of "boderline personality." That diagonis is often tossed at people who try to fit in untennable social circumstances but for whom the irrationality of the environment is often difficult to mask in their overt expression.
Like several other non-specific diagnoses, borderline personality depends for a foundation on a fundamental attribution error, assuming that a person's expression is the result of basic personality traits rather than interactions with an environment that is often far more toxic than any pathology in the person identified as expressing an innappropriate personality.
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