How to Regulate Your Borderline: External Regulation, Regulatory Focus Theory (Higgins)

WATCH Tips: Survive Your Borderline Enchantress Regulatory system Regulation of consciousness Ego functions Regulations of emotions and moods Cult-like psychology or paracosm shared fantasy Sense of unitary completion, holistic (benign) perfection, symbiotic merger or fusion Balance, homeostasis: secure base, safety, stability, predictability all via mere object constancy (to counter introject inconstancy) Pain avoidance and mitigation via infantilization and assumption of parental roles and discourse Structure, order, contractual but not transactional (rights and corresponding or commensurate duties) Nurturance, needs satisfaction, gratification, wishes, aspirations, accomplishments, horizon, hope Intercession and intermediation of reality: vicarious reality testing Regulatory focus theory (Proposed in 1997 by U.S. psychologist E. Tory Higgins) Find and Buy MOST of my BOOKS and eBOOKS in my Amazon Store: