Diagnose Borderline: Diagnostik Und Therapeutische PRAXIS

The borderline personality disorder is an ambiguous phenomenon and often gives rise to diagnostic difficulties. This book offers help with the diagnosis, uses psychodynamic aspects to trace the development of individuals with the disorder, and indicates ways of treating them. The intense emotions triggered by the patients and therapists concerned are also addressed, and the book explains how these can be dealt with constructively. The theoretical explanations are illustrated with numerous helpful brief case studies.