ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author outlines the phenomenology and attempt to suggest some causes and an initial explanation of early ending in group-analytic therapy by patients with a borderline and/or narcissistic personality disorder as first analysed systematically by O. F. Kernberg and H. Kohut. He focuses on aspects of the phenomenology of the “symbiotic syndrome” as it generally makes its appearance in the group-analytic group. Despite the difficulties, group-analytic psychotherapy has been proved a very advantageous therapeutic milieu in which to treat borderline personality disorders. The author describes the way in which two people with borderline personality disorder, Jane, a thirty-two-year-old woman, and Stylianos, a forty-nine-year-old man, who were members of two different heterogeneous group-analytic groups of mine in private practice, terminated their therapeutic treatment early. In the case of patients with a borderline personality disorder rather than a mature, ending usually takes place.
