Relationship Management Of The Borderline Patient

From Understanding To Treatment

David L. Dawson, Harriet L. MacMillan, David L. Dawson, Harriet L. MacMillan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134858132
• Print ISBN:
  9780876307144
• Subtopic: Abnormal Psychology

This volume offers guidelines for managing the therapist-patient relationship during crisis intervention and longer-term therapy with patients who exhibit borderline symptoms. Since to do no harm is the primary goal of any therapist who encounters such a patient, an appropriate therapist-patient relationship is crucial; moreover, skillful management of this relationship can, in itself, be the most effective and safe treatment. The authors present a conceptual model, based on self psychology and interpersonal theory, for reframing the borderline symptoms and the therapist's reactions. Case examples demonstrate effective relationship management and therapeutic interventions.

Subject Index

Abuse

alcohol, 120, 166–167, 176

drug, 120, 166, 176

physical, 17–20, 24, 25, 49–50, 151–154

sexual, 17–20, 23, 24, 25, 49–50, 64, 133, 151–155, 187–190

substance, 121

Acting out, definition of, 56, 146

Action plan, 181–182, 184, 186–187, 189–190

Adolescent patients, etiology among, 23–24

Adolescents, borderline behavior in, 141–162

Adoption, 23

Adults, patients as responsible, intelligent, 93–94, 97–100, 119, 130, 132, 147–149, 150–151

Affect, incongruity between situation and, 78

Affective disorder(s), 9, 11, 145

Alcohol abuse, 120, 166–167, 176

Alcoholics Anonymous, 120

Allen Institute, 63

All not as it appears to be, 67–69

Ambulatory schizophrenia, 4

American Psychiatric Association, 8, 19

Task Force on Nomenclature and Statistics of, 7, 8

American Psychoanalytic Association, 5

Analysis, interactional/interpersonal, 70–76, 164–167, 181, 183–184, 186, 189

Anticonvulsant medication, 108

Antidepressant medication, 156

Antisocial personality disorder, 18

Anxiety attacks, 134–135

Appearances, 67–69

Archives of General Psychiatry, 9

As if personality, 5

Asking about suicide ideation, injunction against, 123

Assessment, of institutional context, 74

Assigned attributes, see Contrary position Assumption of immediate relationship, 79

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half-title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table Of Contents
• Foreword by Thomas McGlashan, M.D.
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. History, Etiology, Concepts
• II. Treatment of the Borderline Syndrome
• III. Treatment of Related Problems
• References
• Name Index
• Subject Index