Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 13
9780881630565
Category
Health, Fitness & Dieting; Mental Health; Personality Disorders
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Publication Year
1987
Publisher
Description
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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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