Jerome Bernstein's account of 'borderland personalities' — people who live with a permeable boundary between the human and natural worlds, experiencing animals and nature with unusual psychic intensity.
Borderland personality: a psychological typology of people who do not experience themselves as fully separate from the natural world — often clinically misdiagnosed as psychotic or delusional. The shamanic dimension: these experiences parallel shamanic traditions. Clinical practice implications: treating these people requires a different framework than conventional psychopathology.
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