title: Countertransference in the treatment of the borderline personality.
abstract: The emotional pressure and transferences of patients to their physicians and other caregivers are natural, inevitable occurrences that are not restricted to therapeutic situations in which one is using a dynamic approach. Transferences are present in all relationships but are scrutinized in intensive dynamic psychotherapy. This article presents clinical examples that illustrate the intense pressures, often near-psychotic, exerted by certain borderline patients, which are unconsciously targeted to force a specific type of response from the therapist.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: R B
authors.initials: RB
authors.lastname: Cornfield
authors.forename: I A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Share
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003379:Countertransference; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D017211:Treatment Failure; D016896:Treatment Outcome