Personalities

Master Clinicians Confront the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

AvGerben Hellinga,Bert van Luyn,Henk-Jan Dalewijk

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There are many approaches to the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. In this fascinating volume, the editors interview the major proponents of these approaches. The book contains fourteen interviews with a diverse range of therapists. The questions are the same, but the answers are as different as the personalities of the respondents. They discuss the major principles of their treatment, their professional development, and their differences. The interviews also reveal the people behind the theories. What personal motives made them want to work with patients so often considered “difficult”? Why did they choose or develop the specific methods that they use? The therapists represented in this comprehensive volume are Gerald Adler, Salman Akhtar, Lorna Smith Benjamin, John Clarkin, Robert Cloninger, Arthur Freeman, Glenn Gabbard, Otto Kernberg, Marsha Linehan, John Livesley, James Masterson, Lawrence Rockland, Michael Stone, and Jeffrey Young. These master clinicians explain what they would do in very specific situations, such as the middle-of-the-night suicidal phone call or the chance encounter with a patient at a social gathering. The answers are instructive, sometimes surprising, and always reflective of the differences and similarities of these great therapists. The editors have provided a contemporary picture of the many ways one can go about treating people with severe personality problems.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-08-01
Mått164 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt671 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJason Aronson, Inc.
Antal sidor363
FörlagJason Aronson Publishers
ISBN9780765702944

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Bert van Luyn, Henk-Jan Dalewijk, and, until his retirement in 1999, Gerben Hellinga, are the organizers of Psychiatry in Progress, an internationally recognized program for postgraduate education in psychiatry and psychotherapy. These researchers have organized several courses on personality disorders in which the people interviewed in this book, all leading professionals in the field, participated.

It's a kaleidoscope. With the turn of each chapter, the ever-changing mosaic ranges from the personal to the professional as each master clinician tells of the influences that formed and continue to shape his or her treatment orientation and current thinking. The successes, failures, and limitations of each approach are described by its leading proponent, as well as his or her views regarding the other methodologies. In interview form, this often very personal book reads like a dialogue between the therapists that is frank and surprisingly humorous. Consequently, it is a singular rarity: a clinical text that is both fun and informative and as close to a page-turner as a professional book can be. This book is a crosscut of the best thinking to date concerning the treatment of personality disorders. In the midst of reading it, I found my capacity to differentially diagnose a situation was enhanced and, to my surprise, I began integrating tactics and strategies from other treatment orientations into my own. Readers from every treatment stance will benefit from this book. They will be left with a deeper appreciation, not only of other approaches but also of their own.