Borderline Personality Disorder: Tailoring the Psychotherapy to the Patient

by Leonard Horwitz, Jon G. Allen, Glen O. Gabbard

Book Overview

The book explores the challenge of treating patients with borderline personality disorder. The instability of their relationships, the intensity of their affective responses, and their proneness to paranoid reactions all contribute to their difficulty in working consistently and constructively in the psychotherapeutic situation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0880486899
• ISBN13: 9780880486897
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: American Psychiatric Publishing
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher