title: The inpatient borderline adolescent in group therapy.
abstract: Group therapy provides a situation to focus inpatient adolescent borderlines' problems with separation anxiety, symbiotic pairing, and efforts to help them, based on the availability of multiple transferences and shifts in symbiotic pairs that occur between group members, as well as the observations and contributions of the peers and therapist.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychiatry Tulane University Medical Center, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D012931:Social Environment; D014167:Transference, Psychology