Principles in the psychotherapy of self-destructive borderline patients.
Patients with borderline personality disorder often exhibit lethal or nonlethal self-destructive behavior. The author offers seven principles for establishing and maintaining a therapeutic alliance in the insight-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder patients with self-destructive behavior serious enough to threaten the continuity of the therapy.
Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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