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Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability
Borderline Patients Extending the Limits of Treatability Author:Harold Koeningsberg, Otto F. Kernberg, Michael H. Stone, Ann H. Appelbaum, Frank E. Yeomans, Diana Diamond Borderline conditions are a growing presence in the treatment room, yet they are uncommonly resistant to treatment. Dr. Kernberg and his colleagues have already articulated the modality they call Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Now, in an unusually textured elaboration, they confront the complications that limit treatability-co-existing psyc... more »hopathologies, early trauma/dissociation, problems endemic to the therapeutic situation (attachment disturbances, erotic transferences)-and bring new rounds of clinical ammunition to meet those challenges.« less