A client with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (bpd) has negative feelings toward the other clients on the unit and considers them all "bad." which defense mechanism is the client using when identifying the other clients?

The defense mechanism that the client is utilizing when identifying the other clients is a type of projection or passive aggressiveness, whereby the cient is taking his or her own internal feelings and then projecting them on someone else as a way of trying to rationalize why he or she is feeling this way.