The Science and Promise of Personality Change When I first told my friends I was spending a year improving my personality, many of them were appalled. I shouldn’t focus on changing myself ...

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She was transparent with me and explained to me the Kernberg conceptualization of personality organization. She told me at the beginning of my treatment ... level of the BPD sample’s functional ...