Midphase of Treatment: Movement Toward Integration With Episodes of Regression

Primary Tasks of the Midphase of Treatment | Range of Sexual Relationships in Patients with BPO | Deepening the Understanding of Splitting and Striving Toward Integration | Following Shifting Projections: Integration and Improvements in Reality Testing | Cycles of Increasing Integration With More Contained and Limited Projection | Expanding the Focus of Therapy in the Midphase | Balancing Attention to the Transference and to the Patient’s Outside Life | Relating Internal Representations, Developmental Identifications, and Projections | Patient Improvement and the Reaction