Psychodynamics and psychotherapeutic management of the self-destructive character-disordered patient.
This article addresses some of the therapeutic strategies that the author has employed over the past number of years in treating a large number of patients usually referred to in the literature as having borderline or narcissistic personality disorders. The author refers to these patients as characterologically difficult. The focus of the treatment strategies is on the more fragile of these patients.
D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D003379:Countertransference; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009289:Narcissism; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D014167:Transference, Psychology
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs