The psychological treatment of personality disorder.
The author presents three case reports of individuals with personality disorder, none of whom demonstrated significant ability for transitional relatedness before therapy. In therapy, he conceptualized for the two adult patients the importance of their inability to experience in the transitional mode; he offered concrete potential transitional objects to the one child patient. The therapeutic results were good.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009769:Object Attachment; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods