title: Beginning psychotherapy with the borderline patient.
abstract: Written as a guide for those about to begin psychotherapy with a borderline patient, this paper succinctly addresses the early stages of therapy. Because it is most helpful to think in accordance with a conceptual framework, the first section of this paper reviews four types of individual psychotherapy, relating these to the borderline patient. The second section deals with larger issues regarding psychotherapy, and the third section focuses on specific interventions.
authors.affiliation: Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis.
authors.forename: W N
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Goldstein
mesh_terms: D000184:Acting Out; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000628:therapy*; D003379:Countertransference; D004532:Ego; D005639:Frustration; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*