ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the first two years of my work with Annie (a pseudonym), a hysterical borderline personality of the most chaotic and colorful sort. She was tyrannical, frantic, quick-minded, seductive, alarming, and always changing. Annie had been the picture of the clinically baffling hysterical patient who drove therapists to despair and recurrently maneuvered herself into the limbo of chronic hospitalization.
