Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability (Basic Behavioral Science)

Harold W. Koenigsberg

ISBN 10: 0465095607 / ISBN 13: 9780465095605

Published by Basic Books, 2000

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304 pages. 9.75x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability (Basic Behavioral Science)
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465095607
• ISBN 13: 9780465095605
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.64 kilograms

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Synopsis

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 treatability -- co-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.

About the Author

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.