borderline-personality disorder

— Psychiatrists and lawyers worked from a 500-page manual of mental disorders and bombarded the jury with its jargon. There were learned discourses of schizophrenia, schizoid-personality disorder, borderline-personality disorder, schizotypal disorder, magical thinking, ideas of reference, social isolation, affect that was blunted or inappopriate, narcissistic personality disorder including a grandiose sense of self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies and exhibitionism.