American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Volume 47
- Number 2
- April 1993
Editorial
Articles
Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages172–183This paper provides an introduction and orientation to six articles written by renowned experts on psychotherapy with borderline patients: Adler, Meissner, Chessick, Giovacchini, Kernberg, and Stone. Diagnosis of the borderline patient and conceptual ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.172Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages184–193The therapeutic approach to treatment of borderline patients, as conceived diagnostically in the framework of the borderline spectrum, is described in general terms. The therapeutic difficulties are discussed in reference to the therapeutic alliance, the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.184Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages194–205The understanding and treatment of aloneness is at the core of working with borderline personality disorder patients. The origins of this aloneness will be explored, and related to its manifestations in psychotherapy. The close connection between the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.194Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages206–227My approach to the diagnosis and treatment of the borderline patient is presented. Such patients do not constitute a homogenous group with a specific pathology or developmental defect. Their treatment requires special attention to the everyday phenomena ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.206Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages228–244This 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 ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.228Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages245–254The differential diagnosis of chronic suicidal and parasuicidal behavior in borderline patients is reviewed. Essential psychodynamics of these behaviors are explored, especially the psychopathology of unconscious hatred. The psychotherapy centers on the ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.245Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages255–272Suicide risk in borderline personality disorder is appreciable. Borderline patients also make many manipulative suicide threats that pose serious therapeutic challenges. Therapists must cope with the patients’ paradoxical assertions and must develop an ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.255Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages273–282This paper describes the two-year process of group therapy in a geriatric population of WWII ex-prisoners-of-war. Therapeutic conduct and content are considered, including themes of grief, trust, mortality, and socialization. Changes in self-esteem and ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.273Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages283–295A possible answer is presented to the danger of conceptual and technical fragmentation in eclectic-integrative treatments. Instead of attempting to unify eclectic treatments by an overarching theory, it is proposed that the symptomatic and personal ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.283Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages296–305When confronted with a significant bereavement, a psychotherapist must attend both to personal and patient needs. The issue of how much to disclose to patients in supportive psychotherapy in a consultation liaison outpatient service is discussed in ...
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.296Book Review
Publication date: 01 April 1993
Pages308–310https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1993.47.2.308aNotes and Comments
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