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The Borderline Patient

Emerging Concepts in Diagnosis, Psychodynamics, and Treatment

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  • Price: $66.95 $60.26
  • Hardback: 350 pages
  • Published: June 1987
  • ISBN: 978-0-88163-055-8
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Series: Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

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.