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The Borderline Patient

Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment

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

Published June 1st 1987 by Routledge – 350 pages

Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series

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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.

Name: The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon, Joan A. Lang. 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...
Categories: Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry & Clinical Psychology - Adult