num_pages: 209
description: Description of Content: This book describes a practical, accessible, hands-on approach to the psychotherapeutic treatment of the borderline patient. The perspective presented is particularly suited to the clinician who has many such patients to face, but who is intimidated by psychoanalytic theory. The tactics and techniques described are based on two of the most obvious aspects of pathological behavior seen in borderline patients: 1) their massive dependency on parents, or new partners who frustrate them endlessly, and 2) their refusal to give up hope on these "Bad Objects" despite a history of severe disappointment. The theoretical model behind this dependency-based analysis of the borderline condition stems from the nearly forgotten work of W.R.D. Fairbairn, whose views have reemerged in the current writings of Kernberg, Masterson, Rinsley &amp; Gerald Adler.
language: English
title: Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Applying Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting
titlecomplete: Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Applying Fairbairn's Object Relations Theory in the Clinical Setting
ratings_count: 4
publisher: International Universities Press