Psychotherapy with the borderline patient: an introduction.
This paper serves as an introduction and orientation to six articles written by renowned experts on psychotherapy with borderline patients: Adler, Meissner, Chessick, Giovacchini, Kernberg, and Stone. Because the articles focus most explicitly on treatment and only touch on diagnosis, a brief excursion into diagnosis is provided. A section on conceptual framework for psychotherapy is presented, helping the reader to place the different authors' approaches into a continuum of exploratory psychotherapy. Finally brief summaries of this six articles are offered.
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Baltimore-Washington Institute for Psychoanalysis, MD.
D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011936:Reality Testing; D013850:Thinking