Treatment of the Borderline Personality

Patricia M. Chatham, Ph.D., is a staff psychologist and former director of training of the Psychology Service, Veteran's Administration Medical in Reno, Nevada. She is currently clinical associate professor of behavioral sciences at the School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno.

Patricia Chatham's Treatment of the Borderline Personality is an excellent, scholarly overview and integration of the psychodynamic perspective on treatment of individuals with borderline personality disorder. The use of three continuous cases throughout the book illustrates the diversity as well as some of the problems with attempts to integrate theoretical approaches and practical reality. This book is a rich, readable, clinically oriented description of the psychodynamic-developmental perspective based on the four theoretical psychoanalytic schools: structural, ego psychology, object relations, and self-psychology. Dr. Chatham draws heavily on Kernberg, whose views she presents in a coherent form.