ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces two borderline cases, demonstrating how the intrapsychic structure is derived from the patient’s clinical picture and how the borderline triad operates. Fred and Leslie are lower-level borderline patients. The vicissitudes of the clinical manifestations of the intrapsychic structures as they ebb and flow in treatment and are dealt with by the therapist in the testing and working-through phases will be demonstrated in Chapters 9 and 10 for these two patients, as well as for Ann B., whose history was presented in Chapter 2 (pp. 33–37).
