A Patient with Borderline Personality Disorder Tells the Nurse,"When I

A patient with borderline personality disorder tells the nurse,"When I met my boyfriend he was simply perfect.Now he is the worst person in the world.I tell him to leave and then I feel so empty and awful that I have to cut myself." The description of the boyfriend is strongly influenced by the patient's inclination to:

A) use splitting.
B) be attention-seeking.
C) display antisocial tendencies.
D) suffer from a formal thought disorder.