title: Treating the hospitalized borderline patient: reworking trauma of toddlerhood.
abstract: Frequently borderline patients are found to have suffered specific traumata during the separation-individuation phase. These traumata seem to have been experienced by them as punishment for their attempts at autonomy or for their early masturbatory explorations. Psychoanalytically oriented hospital-based treatment can allow for reexperiencing and resolving these difficulties, as illustrated in a case presentation.
authors.affiliation: Washington Psychoanalytic Institute Extension Program.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Silver
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001010:Anxiety, Separation; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology; D014754:Violence; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000523:psychology