Dialectical behavior

As Marsha Linehan (1993) has noted, this personality disorder is typified by dialectical behavior (extremes, like love-hate, at either end of a particular behavioral spectrum, sometimes within the space of a few moments). Some professionals have great difficulty working with people who have this disorder. This is primarily because they do not set personal limits in professional interactions and... 

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