Psychotherapy for borderline personality : focusing on object relations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Clarkin, John F.
Other Authors:	Yeomans, Frank E., 1949-, Kernberg, Otto F., 1928-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Arlington, VA : American Psychiatric Pub., [2006]
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Borderline personality disorder > Treatment. Psychotherapy. Transference (Psychology) Borderline Personality Disorder > therapy. Psychotherapy > methods.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

The nature of borderline personality organization
The treatment of borderline pathology: the strategies of TFP
The techniques of treatment: moment-to-moment interventions
Tactics of treatment: laying the groundwork for techniques
Assessment phase: clinical evaluation and treatment choice
Assessment phase: treatment contracting
Early treatment phase: impulse containment and capacity to maintain the relationship with the therapist
Midphase of treatment: movement toward integration with episodes of regression
Advanced phase of treatment and termination
Crisis management and other special situations
Changes processes: theoretical and empirical perspectives.