Losing and Fusing: Borderline Transitional Object and Self Relations

by Roger A. Lewin

Book Overview

Presents a self-relations approach to the borderline syndrome. The authors look at these difficult patients as having core disorders of affective self-identity. The therapeutic relationship is the crucial crucible for transformation in the patient's form of his relationship to himself.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876684908
• ISBN13: 9780876684900
• Release Date: July 1977
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

One of the best texts written about B.P.D.

This is one of the most useful books written about bordeline personality disorder. The authors' humanistic approach to treating this severe personality disorder is commandable. This book describes in details the problems and difficulties that faces the patient in his/her daily life: "The aloness versus losing the self in fusion, the misuse of trasitional objects, the concreteness of mental functioning and much more...It also demonstrates the importance of Winnicott's holding notion to the patient's growth. And how holding renders the losing and fusing dangers more manageable". Not only that the authors demonstrate a great deal of understanding. But, they also assert that while comparisons and contrasts are for the sake of the client, a clinician should not lose sight of the uniqueness of each patient. This is a must read for the professional working with seriously disturbed patients.