Treating The Borderline Patient: A Contract-based Approach

Treating The Borderline Patient: A Contract-based Approach by Yeomans, Frank. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780465087457.

Expanding on the object relations approach to borderline pathology developed by Otto Kernberg and described in the Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients , the authors stress the practical implications of the contract, illustrating how it provides a microcosm of the patients inner world and an opportunity for the therapist to gain an early understanding of the nature of the patients resistances. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.