Borderline Patients: Extending The Limits Of Treatability

by Koenigsberg, Harold W.; Kernberg, Otto F.; Stone, Michael H; Appelbaum, Ann H; Yeomans, Frank E.

• ISBN13: 9780465095605
• ISBN10: 0465095607
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-09
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Borderline conditions are a growing presence in the treatment room, yet they are uncommonly resistant to treatment. Dr. Kernberg and his colleagues have already articulated the modality they call Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Now, in an unusually textured elaboration, they confront the complications that limit treatabilityco-existing psychopathologies, early trauma/dissociation, problems endemic to the therapeutic situation (attachment disturbances, erotic transferences)and bring new rounds of clinical ammunition to meet those challenges.

Author Biography

Otto Kernberg, M.D., an international authority on borderline treatment and a leader in psychoanalytic thought, is Director of the Personality Disorders Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital, where the associate authors, all practicing clinicians, collaborate in research.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part 1 Revisiting the Fundamentls
Borderline Patients and Transference-Focused Psychotherapy	3	(18)
Factors That Shape Borderline Personality Disorder	21	(14)
Treatment Dilemmas Arising from Misdiagnoses	35	(16)
Part 2 Addressing the Complicating Factors
Sadomasochism	51	(18)
Narcissism and Psychopathy	69	(24)
The Impact of Attachment Status	93	(36)
Schizoid States and Paranoid Regression	129	(14)
Depression and Suicidality	143	(30)
Trauma, Sexual Pathology, and Acting Out	173	(20)
Erotic Transferences and Countertransferences	193	(14)
Part 3 Drawing on Complementary Resources
Using Dream Material	207	(22)
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy Combined with Pharmacotherapy	229	(18)
Transference-Focused Psychotherapy in Sequence with Other Modalities	247	(20)
References	267	(12)
Index	279