Treatment Of The Borderline Adolescent: A Developmental Approach / Edition 1

by James F. Masterson, M.D.

Overview

First published in 1986. This book is written for those students of the human condition who can face the sad facts of reality neither dismayed nor despairing but resolved to bring about what change they can through psychotherapy-that art which blends the magic of Gods, the faith of priests, the craftsmanship of artists, and the logic and reason of scientists.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138869011
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2019
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James F. Masteron M.D. Professor Clinical Psychiatry Cornell University Medical College; Head Adolescent Program (Payne Whitney Clinic) The New York Hospital

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Part 1 The Borderline Adolescent

1 The Need for Treatment 5

2 A Developmental Theory: A Separation-Individuation, Failure 18

3 The Clinical Picture 37

4 Feelings of Abandonment: The Six Horsemen of the Apocalypse 58

5 The Parents: An Overview 74

6 The Parents: The Tie That Binds-Clinging 91

Part 2 The Therapeutic Process: Inpatient

7 Theory of the Process 105

8 Phase I: Testing 113

9 Phase II: Working Through 125

10 Casework Treatment of the Parents 141

11 Phase II: Joint Interviews 155

12 Phase III. Separation 169

13 Results: Continuity and Change 176

Part 3 The Therapeutic Process: Outpatient

14 Nancy: Clinical History, Hospital Treatment, and First Outpatient Crisis 187

15 Nancy: Second Crisis To Termination 203

16 Bill, Helen, and Grace: Follow-up Summaries 217

Part 4 Other Therapeutic Factors

17 Differential Diagnosis, Indications, and Contraindications; Counter transference 227

18 Outpatient Treatment Alone 237

19 The Psychiatric Dilemma of Adolescence Revisited 250

Epilogue 257

Appendix Initial and Follow-up Psychological Testing: Nancy and Bill 259

Bibliography 273

Index 281