Clinical Challenges in Psychiatry

Part 1 Patient Factors: Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Dual-Diagnosis Patients; An Interpersonal Psychotherapeutic Approach to Depressed HIV-Seropositive Patients; Conceptual Issues in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder; The Assessment and Management of the Suicidal Patient; Psychotherapy with the Self-Destructive Borderline Patient; Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Masochism; Management Approaches for the Repetitively Aggressive Patient; Compliance Problems and Their Management. Part 2 Situational Factors: Mandated Treatment; The Psychiatrist's Use of Family Involvement; Working with Sued Physicians. Part 3 Therapist Factors: Some Characteristic Initial Resistances in Psychotherapy; The Use of Countertransference in Intensive Psychotherapy with Patients with Schizophrenia; Therapists' Contribution to Negative Therapeutic Reactions.