Borderline Patients: Extending the Limits of Treatability

About this book

Borderline conditions are a growing presence in the treatment room yet they are uncommonly resistant to treatment. Dr. Kernberg and his colleagues have already articulated the modality they call Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Now in an unusually textured elaboration they confront the complications that limit treatability -- co-existing psychopathologies early trauma/dissociation problems endemic to the therapeutic situation (attachment disturbances erotic transferences) -- and bring new rounds of clinical ammunition to meet those challenges.