Psychodynamic Psychotherapy For Borderline Patients

by Kernberg, Otto F.

• ISBN13: 9780465066445
• ISBN10: 0465066445
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-01
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Author Biography

Otto F. Kernberg is associate chairman and medical director, The New York Hospital—Cornell Medical Center, Westchester Division; Drs. Selzer, Koenigsberg, Carr, and Appelbaum are on the faculty there.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Principles of Treatment	p. 1
Borderline Pathology and Psychotherapeutic Alternatives	p. 3
the Treatment Approach	p. 13
Establishing the Contract	p. 25
Conducting a Session	p. 50
Varieties of Countertransference	p. 69
the Phases of Treatment	p. 89
the Early Phase: Coalescing Part Self and Part Object Representations	p. 91
the Advanced Phase: Working with Higher Level Defenses and Transferences	p. 121
Separation: Interruptions and Termination	p. 137
Common Complications	p. 151
Immediate Threats to the Treatment	p. 153
Acting Out and Indications for Deviating from Technical Neutrality	p. 168
Severe Forms of Resistance	p. 184
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 203
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