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

by Grotstein; James S.

• ISBN13: 9780881630558
• ISBN10: 0881630551
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1987-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Preface	xiii
Perspectives on Borderlines and on This Book	xv
Key Questions Regarding the Borderline Patient	xvii
PART IV: Issues in Treatment: Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy	1	(172)
Six Constellations of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients	5	(20)
Vamik D. Volkan
The Development in the Patient of an Internalized Image of the Therapist	25	(16)
Harold F. Searles
Regression and Countertransference in the Treatment of a Borderline Patient	41	(18)
L. Bryce Boyer
The ``Unreasonable'' Patient and the Psychotic Transference	59	(10)
Peter L. Giovacchini
Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Suicidal Potential in Borderline Patients	69	(12)
Otto F. Kernberg
Dreams in the Treatment of the Borderline Personality	81	(22)
Jerome D. Oremland
The Borderline Concept: An Intersubjective Viewpoint	103	(24)
Bernard Brandchaft
Robert D. Stolorow
An Experiential Approach to Narcissistic and Borderline Patients	127	(22)
Joseph D. Lichtenberg
The Analysis of Autistic Character Structure in a Borderline Patient: A Clinical Case Presentation	149	(24)
Daniel Paul
PART V: Issues in Treatment: Alternative Approaches	173	(146)
The Role of Psychopharmacology in the Treatment of Borderline Patients	177	(10)
Allen Pack
Shame in the Family Relationships of Borderline Patients	187	(14)
Melvin R. Lansky
Family Therapy and the Borderline Patient	201	(10)
Saul L. Brown
Toward A Theory for Milieu Treatment of Hospitalized Borderline Patients	211	(16)
Svein Haugsgjerd
Inpatient Hospitalization for Borderline Patients: Process and Dynamics of Change in Long-and Short-Term Treatment	227	(16)
Melvin Singer
Therapeutic Treatment of Borderline Patients by Nonanalytic Practitioners	243	(18)
Marion F. Solomon
Convergence and Controversy: II. Treatment of the Borderline	261	(50)
James S. Grotstein
Joan A. Lang
Marion F. Solomon
Toward a New Understanding of the Borderline: Reflections	311	(8)
James S. Grotstein
Joan A. Lang
Marion F. Solomon
Author Index	319	(4)
Subject Index	323