The borderline/schizoid marriage: the holding environment as an essential treatment construct.
The borderline/schizoid marital constellation is the prominent constellation among borderline patients on a long-term inpatient unit. Treatment of this marital constellation, in which each spouse has a severe personality disorder, requires application of the concept of the holding environment as an essential treatment construct, with the therapist as manager of the holding environment. This paper explicates the means of management. With the proposed treatment approach and a long-term treatment orientation, seemingly hopeless cases can improve.
Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital.
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