The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series) - Hardcover

 
9780881630558: The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

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

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