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The first treatment style supports keeping the patient at a level at which he can function without further regression, while at the same time providing new ego experiences in the therapeutic setting calculated to help him integrate his opposing self-representations and corresponding object representations.
The second view holds that patients need to experience further—now controlled—regression, and hence that the therapist should not interfere with his regressing to a level lower than the chaotic one already exhibited. Accordingly, after regressing so low in a therapeutic setting, the patient will progress through healthier developmental avenues toward psychic growth, much as a child does when in a suitable environment.
(19 pp.)
Dr. Volkan draws the reader into his treatment of Jennifer, a patient with near borderline, and narcissistic personalities, from start to finish, using both modern and classical psychoanalytic techniques. (64 pp.)
Presents a treatment approach for work with borderline patients set forth in six steps that reflect patients’ actual sequential experience in the therapeutic process. (338 pp.)
Because the subjects in this book are mainly “psychosis-prone” borderline patients, it would be well to discuss at the outset what is meant by borderline personality organization.
I believe that we can see within the general developmental and metapsychological guidelines of Kernberg’s formulation, “psychosis-prone” personality organizations (Gunderson et al. 1975, Boyer 1986), some of which are less stable than others. (22 pp.)
