Treating the Borderline Patient in Psychotherapy

Psychotherapy in borderline and narcissistic personality disorder.

Psychodynamic concepts about borderline personality disorder are reviewed and the literature concerning psychotherapeutic treatment of this group is examined. The treatment contexts considered include: psychoanalysis and intensive (expressive) psychoanalytic psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, family therapy, in-patient treatment, the therapeutic community, cognitive-b...

Contact at the borderline: psychoanalytic psychotherapy with EB patients.

Against expectation, the experience of setting up a psychotherapy service for adult epidermolysis bullosa (EB) patients at St Thomas' Hospital in London has been that take up is slow and wary. Prior indications from the wider team were that need is high. This may reflect differences in the experience of need on the part of patients and staff. Published research on the psychosocial aspects ofEB ...

Treating patients with borderline personality disorder in the medical office.

Psychotherapy of the Depressed Patient

THERE IS A TRADITION OF EXCEPTIONAL difficulty in the psychoanalysis or other psychotherapy of depressives. Edith Jacobson (1954) spoke of a more intensive affective involvement with them. She referred to intervening with a "spontaneous gesture of kindness or even a brief expression of anger, " but wisely added, "... since these patients are frequently very provocative and exasperating, such a ...

Psychotherapy of the dying patient.

For a long time now the emotional needs of the dying patient have been largely ignored by the medical profession. The literatu.re on the psychological management of the patient with terminal illness is sparse. Such papers that have been written have tended to appear in specialist journals and have not been readily available to the general practitioner-as, for example, those by Weisman and Hacke...