ABSTRACT

First published in 1988. This volume brings diagnostic order, a comprehensible theory, and a clinical approach out of the confusion surrounding the "borderline" concept.

part |224 pages

Clinical

part |72 pages

A. Supportive Psychotherapy

chapter |32 pages

The Perpetual Student

“Frightened, Unloved, Without a Self”

chapter |10 pages

The Perpetual Student

“I'm Beginning to Find a Self”

chapter |26 pages

Life Begins to End at 40

“My Life Is Going Nowhere”

part |150 pages

B. Reconstructive Psychotherapy

part |98 pages

Case 1: A Second Chance—Peter

chapter |15 pages

Acting Out the Wish for Reunion

“It Feels Good”

chapter |21 pages

A Therapeutic Impasse

“Which Way to Go?”

chapter |23 pages

Abandonment Depression

“If She Dies, I Will Die”

chapter |14 pages

Homicidal Rage

“I Want to Kill Her”

chapter |21 pages

On the Way to Autonomy

“I No Longer Feel Responsible to Her”

part |51 pages

Case 2: A Daughter's Legacy

chapter |12 pages

The Tie that Binds

chapter |18 pages

Tragedy

chapter |10 pages

Mourning

chapter |8 pages

Triumph