Donna has borderline personality disorder. She is in therapy, but progress is slow. One problem is that some days she thinks her therapist is the most wonderful person in the world. On other days, she thinks he is worthless and untrustworthy

This type of thinking is called
a. dialectical.
b. splitting.
c. entitlement.
d. psychopathological.


b. splitting.

Psychology

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Psychology