title: Thematic stages of recovery in the treatment of borderline personality disorder.
abstract: Recovery from borderline personality disorder involves identification and resolution of two core conflicts. Recovery is a long-term process, however, and entails sequential stages that patients must work through. Each stage has unique challenges and pitfalls that must be overcome in order to avoid traumatic reenactment. It is possible for some patients and their therapists to successfully negotiate the stages, even if pathology is on the severe end of the spectrum.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY 13210, USA. gregoryr@upstate.edu
authors.forename: Robert J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Gregory
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012652:Self Mutilation / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D014167:Transference, Psychology; D016896:Treatment Outcome