Kathleen M. Doyle (1937-2020).

Memorializes Kathleen M. Doyle (1937-2020). A leader and advocate for profes sional psychology, she guided the field through periods of challenge and dramatic change, always maintaining the highest standards. For 30 years Kathleen (often called Kathy) was the executive secretary of the New York State Board for Psychology. She subse quently was given additional responsibility as head of the boards for the Clinical Laboratory Technology Practitioner Professions, Ap plied Behavior Analysis, and as the Administrator of the Psycho therapy Institute Review Unit. During her 16 years as a school psychologist, she assumed an active leadership role in several pro fessional organizations, including the Suffolk County Psychological Association and the New York State Psychological Asso ciation. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Discriminating among subgroups of borderline personality disorder: an assessment of object representations.

The purpose of this study was to identify subgroups of borderline personality disorder (BPD) by examining internalized object relations. It was predicted: (a) that the internalized object relations of borderline patients as a group can be differentiated from psychiatric patients (comparison group N = 15), and (b) that BPD subgroups significantly differ in their object-relational profiles. Fifty-seven adult borderline subjects (28 male and 29 female) were separated into three groups based on Horney's description of interpersonal styles (moving away, against, and toward). Object relations were assessed using the Bell Object Relations Inventory and from early memories. Four written early memories were scored using the Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale (SCORS). The results suggest that the malevolent inner object world of borderline patients is fundamentally different from nonborderline psychiatric patients; and that the defined BPD subgroups of moving toward, against, and away differed significantly on specific structural and thematic object-relational dimensions. Aspects from Fairbairn's object relations theory and contributions from the self/representational, ego deficit, and Kernberg's models of borderline psychopathology are used to help interpret the findings. Identifying subtypes of BPD may allow for more precise discriminations in separating BPD from other disorders and may provide meaningful therapeutic and prognostic information for the different subgroups of borderline patients.