title: A practical approach to the psychotherapy of the borderline patient.
abstract: Guidelines for the ordinary psychotherapist in the day-to-day office treatment of so-called borderline patients are presented. Practical pointers for handling problems of diagnosis, working alliance, transferences, middle phase, and termination are given, followed by a brief discussion of the future of the concept of borderline patient.
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011889:Rage; D014167:Transference, Psychology