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