The Borderline patient : emerging concepts in diagnosis, psychodynamics, and treatment

Volume 1. Part 1 - Issues in diagnosis. 1 Clinical impressions of the borderline patient - Marion F. Solomon, Joan A. Lang, and James F. Grotstein. 2 Systems for defining a borderline case - Michael H. Stone. 3 Interfaces between psychoanalytic and empirical studies of borderline personality - John G Gunderson. 4 The borderline concept: a critical appraisal and some alternative suggestions - David M. Terman. 5 A contribution to the issues of borderline diagnosis - W.W. Meissner. 6 Transitional phenomena and the Rorschach: a test of a clinical theory of borderline personality organization - Ramon Greenberg, Stephanie Craig, Larry J. Seidman, Steven Cooper, and Ann Teele. 7 Reflections on the meanings of "borderline": between metaphor and concept - Rudolf Ekstein. Part 2 - Explanatory formulations: psychodynamic and developmental. 8 Some analogies between findings in infant research and clinical observations of adults, particularly patients with borderline and narcissistic personality disorders - Joseph D. Lichtenberg. 9 Two contrasting frames of reference for understanding borderline patients: Kernberg and Kohut - Joan A. Lang. 10 Borderline personality organization and the transition to the depressive position - Lawrence J. Brown. 11 The borderline state, the transitional object, and the psychoanalytic paradox - Peter L. Giovacchini. 12 Borderline and narcissistic disorders: an integrated developmental object-relations approach - James F. Masterson. 13 A reconsideration of Fairbairn's "original object" and "original ego" in relation to borderline and other self disorders - Donald B. Rinsley. 14 Injured self-cohesion: developmental, clinical, and theoretical perspectives - Marian Tolpin. Part 3 - Explanatory formulations: biological and genetic. 15 Constitution and temperament in borderline conditions: biological and genetic explanatory formulations - Michael H. Stone. 16 Comments on the pathogenesis of the borderline disorder - Mortimer Ostow. 17 Selfobject transference in the treatment of borderline neurocognitively impaired children - Joseph Palombo. 18 The borderline as a disorder of self-regulation - James S. Grotstein (with an additional contribution by Pamela Scavio). 19 Convergence and controversy: I. Theory of the borderline - Joan A. Lang, James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon. Volume 2. Part 4 - Issues in treatment: psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. 20 Six constellations of psychoanalytic psychotherapy of borderline patients - Vamik D. Volkan. 21 The development in the patient of an internalized image of the therapist - Harold A. Searles. 22 Regression and countertransference in the treatment of a borderline patient - L. Bryce Boyer. 23 The "unreasonable" patient and the psychotic transference - Peter L. Giovacchini. 24 Diagnosis and clinical managemet of suicidal potential in borderline patients - Otto F. Kernberg. 25 Dreams in the treatment of the borderline personality - Jerome D. Oremland. 26 The borderline concept: an intersubjective viewpoint - Bernard Brandchaft and Robert D. Stolorow. 27 An experiential approach to narcissistic and borderline patients - Joseph D. Lichtenberg. 28 The analysis of autistic character structure in a borderline patient: a clinical case presentation - Daniel Paul. Part 5 - Issues in treatment: alternative approaches. 29 The role of psychopharmacology in the treatment of borderline patients - Allen Pack. 30 Shame in the family relationships of borderline patients - Melvin R. Lansky. 31 Family therapy and the borderline patient - Saul L. Brown. 32 Toward a theory for milieu treatment of hospitalized borderline patients - Svein Haugsgjerd. 33 Inpatient hospitalization for borderline patients: process and dynamics of change in long- and short-term treatment - Melvin Singer. 34 Therapeutic treatment of borderline patients by nonanalytic practitioners - Marion F. Solomon. 35 Convergence and controversy: II. Treatment of the borderline - James S. Grotstein, Joan A. Lang, and Marion F. Solomon. 36 Toward a new understanding of the borderline: reflections - James S. Grotstein, Joan A. Lang, and Marion F. Solomon

'...[the editors] have deliberately chosen contributors with a broad range of views about borderline patients. With meticulous care, they distinguish, compare, and, where possible, reconcile these points of view....affording the reader an opportunity to sample the richness of current thinking about borderline patients....'

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