borderline

The term borderline has come into increasing use in the last thirty years, in describing a severe form of psychopathology.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Kernberg stressed the role of the overabundance of constitutionally predisposed aggression or very early frustration rather than maternal care that color the ways they experience their caretakers as resulting in the development of the intermediate level of structure, which he called borderline personality organization.

Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001

Kernberg stressed the role of the overabundance of constitutionally predisposed aggression or very early frustration rather than maternal care that color the ways they experience their caretakers as resulting in the development of the intermediate level of structure, which he called borderline personality organization.

Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001

When he was eventually caught in 2000 after delivering a particularly eye-opening interview with Christina Ricci and a rival blew the whistle, he refused to say sorry, insisting that he specialised in what he called "borderline journalism".

The Guardian World News Helen Pidd 2011

One of the more interesting paths Donoghue sets out to traverse is what she terms the borderline territory of "murkily criminal" lesbian sex as found in mystery and detective fiction.

Edmonton Sun 2010

"The mainstream, or what I call the borderline, bettor isn't interested unless it's strung out," said Jimmy Vaccaro, director of Lucky's sports books.

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

"The mainstream, or what I call the borderline, bettor isn't interested unless it's strung out," said Jimmy Vaccaro, director of Lucky's sports books.

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

Even when black Democratic politicians stumble and engage in borderline corrupt and self-serving feather their own nest antics, they are still regarded as better bets than Republican candidates to be more responsive to black needs.

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Black Republicans Peddle Fantasy of Ousting Democrats in November Earl Ofari Hutchinson 2010

I don't agree with some of the antics of "fellow hunters" and there are more than a few hunters that engage in borderline poaching, leaving trash, road hunting, wasting game, and you name it.

If your not going to eat it , why would you shoot a animal? 2009

I don't agree with some of the antics of "fellow hunters" and there are more than a few hunters that engage in borderline poaching, leaving trash, road hunting, wasting game, and you name it.

If your not going to eat it , why would you shoot a animal? 2009