ABSTRACT
Bearing in mind the intensity of the counter-transference, the binding of the sadism, the thrall of the ‘core phantasy’ and the risk of the negative therapeutic reactions, it is hardly surprising that we are counselled to be cautious in the analysis of the borderline patient. This caution informs a technique which allows the patient to feel less isolated and blamed. The tools of such a technique include the analyst-centred interpretations and the informative experience which when used with Paulo provided therapeutic clarification rather than illusory gratification. The borderline patient inhabits a psychic world of idealised and denigrated others, a world where no cohesive model of an ordinarily satisfying and at the same time disappointing object can be conceived. The manifestations of these characteristics become present within the transference with a rapidity and precipitateness of considerable intensity.
