title: [The lessons of Cleopatra or reflections on conter-transfer and borderlines.].
abstract: The author examines certain counter-transference stakes in psychotherapeutic work with borderline patients. Specifically, she looks at counter-transference linked, on the one hand, to these persons' mode of communication, marked by identity projection, and on the other hand, to their mode of relating, characterized by the desire to merge both their anxieties and their ways of thinking, influenced by abundant use of a splitting mechanism. The author then reflects on narcissistic economy and the length considerations for the patient-therapist pair. She illustrates her article with clinical vignettes from her work with one of her patients, Cleo, who inspired this article.
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authors.lastname: Richard