The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment / Edition 1

by James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon, Joan A. Lang

Overview

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among others) is followed by a section exploring a variety of alternative approaches. The latter include psychopharmacology, family therapy, milieu treatment, and hospitalization. The editors' concluding essay discusses the controversies and convergences among the different treatment approaches.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881630558
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/1987
Series:	Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series , #6
Pages:	348
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

About the Author

James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon, Joan A. Lang

Table of Contents

Part 4 Issues in Treatment; Chapter 20 Six Constellations of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients, Vamık D. Volkan; Chapter 21 The Development in the Patient of an Internalized Image of the Therapist, Harold F. Searles; Chapter 22 Regression and Countertransference in the Treatment of a Borderline Patient, L. Bryce Boyer; Chapter 23 The “Unreasonable” Patient and the Psychotic Transference, Peter L. Giovacchini; Chapter 24 Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Suicidal Potential in Borderline Patients, Otto F. Kernberg; Chapter 25 Dreams in the Treatment of the Borderline Personality, Jerome D. Oremland; Chapter 26 The Borderline Concept, Bernard Brandchaft, Robert D. Stolorow; Chapter 27 An Experiential Approach to Narcissistic and Borderline Patients, Joseph D. Lichtenberg; Chapter 28 The Analysis of Autistic Character Structure in a Borderline Patient, Daniel Paul; Part 5 Issues in Treatment; Chapter 29 The Role of Psychopharmacology in the Treatment of Borderline Patients, Allen Pack; Chapter 30 Shame in the Family Relationships of Borderline Patients, Melvin R. Lansky; Chapter 31 Family Therapy and the Borderline Patient, Saul L. Brown; Chapter 32 Toward A Theory for Milieu Treatment of Hospitalized Borderline Patients, Svein Haugsgjerd; Chapter 33 Inpatient Hospitalization for Borderline Patients, Melvin Singer; Chapter 34 Therapeutic Treatment of Borderline Patients by Nonanalytic Practitioners, Marion F. Solomon; Chapter 35 Convergence and Controversy, James S. Grotstein, Joan A. Lang, Marion F. Solomon; Chapter 36 Toward a New Understanding of the Borderline, James S. Grotstein, Joan A. Lang, Marion F. Solomon;