The Borderline Patient (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology. A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among others) is followed by a section exploring a variety of alternative approaches. The latter include psychopharmacology, family therapy, milieu treatment, and hospitalization. The editors' concluding essay discusses the controversies and convergences among the different treatment approaches.

• | Author: James S. Grotstein, Marion F. Solomon
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jun 23, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 348 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1138872180
• | ISBN-13: 9781138872189