title: Uses and limitations of Kohut's self psychology in the treatment of borderline patients.
abstract: The treatment of borderline patients provides a setting in which the analyst can evaluate the clinical usefulness of Kohut's theories. The issues that arise in this treatment can also highlight aspects of Kohut's theories that are incomplete and require other theoretical models in order to understand the patient optimally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Adler
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D004532:Ego; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D009769:Object Attachment; D010553:Personality Development; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D014167:Transference, Psychology