Borderline personality disorder--Treatment, Psychotherapy 

In this volume, Dr William Meissner offers a concrete approach to the therapy of borderline patients. For Meissner, the term borderline does not refer to one diagnostic entity, but rather to a series of entities of varying degrees of pathological organization, reflecting a range of structural and functional levels. This shift in viewpoint has crucial implications for clinical treatment. It calls for a variety of psychotherapeutic strategies and a more flexible, more responsive therapeutic schema correlated to the patient's level of pathology. Editorial Reviews About the Author Meissner is the training and supervising analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and university professor of psychoanalysis at Boston College. Meissner is Professor of Psychoanalysis at Boston College, Training and Supervising Analyst at Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, and former Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.