Borderline personality disorder
Subtitle: tailoring the psychotherapy to the patient
By: Leonard Horwitz ... [et al.].
Contributors: Horwitz, Leonard, 1922-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Psychiatric Press; Brand: Amer Psychiatric Pub; Amer Psychiatric Pub Inc
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Borderline personality disorder -- Treatment.; Psychiatry -- Differential therapeutics.; Borderline Personality Disorder -- therapy.; Psychotherapy -- methods.
Description: Borderline Personality Disorder: Tailoring the Psychotherapy to the Patient explores the challenge of treating patients with borderline personality disorder. The book begins with a review of the clinical and research literature pertaining to the treatment of borderline patients. It presents a unique, empirically based intensive study of three borderline patients, using transcripts of audiotaped therapy sessions.

The research methodology is reviewed, and clinically oriented descriptions of the three patients, their psychotherapy processes, and their outcomes are included. Following an overall summary of results, conclusions regarding the differential indications for supportive versus expressive emphasis in psychotherapy are discussed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.