ABSTRACT
This chapter describes an intensive treatment process with a patient with a borderline personality disorder. It was clear that Robin's treatment was not finished after the three-month inpatient programme. In Transactional Analysis, a personality disorder is characterised by a script with self-destructive messages that influence the functioning of the integrative Adult with negative consequences for work and relationships. One of Eric Berne's aims in psychotherapy was to cure patients rather than have them just make progress. The whole setting and milieu of the psychotherapeutic programme is aimed at discovering links between past and present and changing dysfunctional patterns. The programme consists of three therapies each day: group psychotherapy, one of the non-verbal therapies and sociotherapy. In sociotherapy patients discuss their household duties and how they experience living together in the house where they stay during the treatment programme. The therapeutic contract is one of the elements of Transactional Analysis that is essential in the programme.
