It has been useful to us to define confrontation as a specific technique for dealing with avoidance defenses. Because borderline patients rely heavily on these avoidance mechanisms, we have found confrontation to be necessary in their treatment. At certain difficult times it is needed as part of the therapist’s effort to help his patient regain an experience of security and avoid actual dangers toward which he is inclined.
Download Author: Adler, Gerald M.D.
The Misuses of Confrontation in the Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients
When it happens that the patient observes his therapist struggling with his own countertransference fury, he has the opportunity to learn how another person can master murderous rage. If the therapist fails in his struggle, the patient may then comply helplessly as a victim of an attack, and his view of the world as untrustworthy is further confirmed. In this mutual struggle the patient can learn that neither he nor the therapist need destroy each other in spite of mutually destructive urges.
Borderline Psychopathology and its Treatment
Gives as much weight to the patient’s reports of his subjective experience as to his behavior in the transference. What the patient feels – his “inner emptiness,” his “aloneness” were the spur and the foundation for the theoretical formulations. (417 pp.)
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Describes the varieties of confrontation in psychotherapy, its meanings to patients and therapists, its indications and its dangers. (637 pp.)
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