title: Redefining borderline syndromes as posttraumatic and rediscovering emotional containment as a first stage in treatment.
abstract: This brief review traces the evolution of clinical understanding about borderline syndromes during the last three decades of the 20th century. The focus shifted from descriptive phenomenology in the 1970s to documenting linkages with childhood trauma in the 1980s. In the 1990s, effective and teachable techniques for emotional containment in these conditions were developed and evaluated for efficacy.
authors.affiliation: University of Texas Medical Branch, USA.
authors.forename: Jean M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Goodwin
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D002666:Psychology, Child; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D017741:Survivors; D013577:Syndrome; D014481:United States