Negative responses of the borderline to inpatient treatment.
The intense therapeutic encirclement maneuvers possible in long-term inpatient therapy of the borderline patient frequently stimulate emotional flooding and intense negative therapeutic reactions. Such reactions have understandable precipitants: a mixture of therapeutic goals, treatment methods, and defensive structures of the patient best conceptualized within an object-relations model.
D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012114:Residential Treatment