Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients
Published on 30. March 1994
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-0-88048-563-0 (ISBN)
Description
Management of Countertransference With Borderline Patients is an open and detailed discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients. This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference that legitimizes the therapist's reactions and shows ways to use them therapeutically with the patient.
This comprehensive volume ; includes an overview of common countertransference feelings that arise in treating borderline patients; describes various aspects of countertransference management; illustrates these aspects with detailed clinical vignettes; covers gender issues in countertransference; presents a detailed examination of countertransference when the therapist is pregnant
Management of Countertransference With Borderline Patients serves as a clinical guide for all mental health professionals seeking to avoid boundary violations in their clinical work.
This comprehensive volume ; includes an overview of common countertransference feelings that arise in treating borderline patients; describes various aspects of countertransference management; illustrates these aspects with detailed clinical vignettes; covers gender issues in countertransference; presents a detailed examination of countertransference when the therapist is pregnant
Management of Countertransference With Borderline Patients serves as a clinical guide for all mental health professionals seeking to avoid boundary violations in their clinical work.
Reviews / Votes
There have been many fine books on the borderline personality, but this is the first work that intelligently addresses the effect of borderline patients on the psychotherapist or psychoanalyst who works with them. It is a profoundly informative, vivid, and compelling read, because the authors have skillfully inserted riveting clinical vignettes that evoke the presence of the personality they address, thereby establishing a rather remarkable triangular drama: this extraordinary patient, contemporary psychoanalytic theories on the borderline patient, and the clinician who must carry his patient and his own beset-upon self to psychic change and well-being.More details
Language
English
Place of publication
VA
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
532 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-88048-563-0 (9780880485630)
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Persons
Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., is Professor and Director of the Baylor Psychiatry Clinic at the Baylor College of Medicine and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Houston-Galveston Psychoanalytic Institute in Houston, Texas. He was previously Director of the Menninger Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. Dr. Gabbard is the author or editor of sixteen books and currently is joint Editor-in-Chief and Editor for North America of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. His numerous awards include the 2000 Mary Sigourney Award for outstanding contributions to psychoanalysis.
Sallye M. Wilkinson, Ph.D., is Staff Psychologist and Assistant Unit Director in the Children's Division of The Menninger Clinic and a candidate in the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Sallye M. Wilkinson, Ph.D., is Staff Psychologist and Assistant Unit Director in the Children's Division of The Menninger Clinic and a candidate in the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Content
Introduction. Overview of countertransference with borderline patients. Establishment of optimal distance. On victims, rescuers, and abusers. On holding, containment, and thinking one's own thoughts. Reactions to rage and hatred. Sexual feelings and gender issues. Use of therapist self-disclosure. Splitting. Supervision and consultation. Therapeutic aspects of managing countertransference. Index.