Dynamically Oriented Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients

This article outlines a basic framework and strategy for a dynamically oriented psychotherapy with borderline patients. Focus includes arrangements and guidelines for psychotherapy, neutrality, the stability of the therapeutic environment, the therapeutic alliance, transference, countertransference, activity of the therapist, types of interventions, style of interventions, interventions regarding core diffculties, the conceptual framework of anxiety and defense, the differentiation between analytically oriented and dynamically oriented psychotherapy, trends in the psychotherapy, and termination.