Omnipotence, Helplessness, and Control with the Borderline Patient

T. H. McGlashan, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 37, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1983.37.1.49

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Borderline patients’ strategies to control the therapist frequently represent transferential enactments of developmental experiences in symbiosis and early differentiation. The therapist comes to be regarded as full and omnipotent and the self as empty, helpless, and envious, leading to several pathological coping strategies which are elaborated. Reconstructions of such patients’ early developments are postulated based upon these pathologies.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 37 • Number 1 • 1983, pp. 1–164

Pages: 49 - 61

PubMed: 6846667

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Published in print: 1983, pp. 1–164

Published online: 30 April 2018

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T. H. McGlashan, M.D.^*

Rockville, Md.

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Director of Research, Chestnut Lodge, 500 West Montgomery Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850.

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Omnipotence, Helplessness, and Control with the Borderline Patient

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