Treatment Issues with Borderline Patients and the Psychosomatic Focus

Peter L. Giovacchini, M.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 47, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.228

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This article deals with intensive analytically oriented psychotherapy with borderline patients. In this form of intervention, regression is considered to be an essential element. The role of a holding environment is stressed. Extensive discussion of clinical material offers a direct view into the psychoanalytic process with highly regressed individuals. Borderline patients with underlying structural deficits are distinguished from those who actively use splitting and projection as defenses.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 47 • Number 2 • 1993, pp. 167–327

Pages: 228 - 244

PubMed: 8517471

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Published in print: 1993, pp. 167–327

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Peter L. Giovacchini, M.D.

Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Illinois, College of Medicine.

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Mailing address: 270 Locust Road, Winnetka, IL 60093

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Treatment Issues with Borderline Patients and the Psychosomatic Focus

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