Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality: Focusing on Object Relations
"Pyschotherapy for Borderline Personality offers a clear strategy for treating BPD that follows logically from object relations theory. The text reflects the insight of decades of research and clinical practice with BPD and has the added benefit of incorporating contemporary findings from neurobiology and studies on temperament. This manual would be invaluable for all clinicians practicing psychodynamic psychotherapy, regardless of their level of experience. It is clear and comprehensive in its coverage of BPD treatment and offers reasonable guidelines and strategies for effectively negotiating the complex behavioral and affective oscillations so typical of individuals with BPD. Its 11 chapters present an overview of the theoretical foundations of TFP, followed by an extensive review of the techniques and tactics used to treat BPD, from assessment to termination....Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality is uncompromising in its scholarship as well as inspiring in its clinical formulations....Anyone who wants to understand borderline personality and its treatment from a psychodynamic perspective would do well to read this manual."-- "PsycCRITIQUES", "October 25, 2006"