Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability

by Michael H. Stone, Ann H. Appelbaum, Harold W. Koenigsberg, et al.

Book Overview

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 psychopathologies, early trauma/dissociation, problems endemic to the therapeutic situation (attachment disturbances,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465095607
• ISBN13: 9780465095605
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"