Research Catalog

Title

Borderline and other self disorders : a developmental and object-relations perspective / Donald B. Rinsley.

Author

Rinsley, Donald B.

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : J. Aronson, 1997.

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Details

Description

xiii, 322 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

• Dr. Rinsley clearly delineates the borderline and other self disorders from a developmental viewpoint and suggests viable approaches to psychotherapy with these difficult, often elusive patients.
• Dr. Rinsley's years of experience treating seriously disturbed children, adolescents, adults, and their families led him to understand the major personality pathology that lies midway along a developmental-diagnostic continuum between the psychoses and the psychoneuroses.
• He shows that the basic therapeutic task is to provide the patient with a "good enough" or "holding" environment within the context of which explanation, confrontation, and interpretation may lead to the resolution of underlying pathologic determinants.
• He synthesizes of the work of Klein and Fairbairn from the British school of object relations, Jacobson and Kernberg on internalized object relations, Mahler on symbiosis and individuation, Bowlby on attachment and loss, Kohut on the psychology of narcissism and disorders of the self, Masterson on borderline object relations and the concept of abandonment depression, and Piaget on the development of cognitive-perceptual structure. The author places particular importance on the failure of communicative matching, mutual cueing or "goodness of fit" between mother and child, leading to the latter's disturbances.

Series Statement

Master work series

Uniform Title

Master work series.

Subjects

• Borderline Personality Disorder > etiology
• Object relations (Psychoanalysis)
• Borderline personality disorder
• Personality disorders > Etiology
• Individuation
• Separation-individuation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-303) and index.

Contents

1. Economic Aspects of Object Relations -- 2. The Role of the Mother -- 3. A View of Object Relations -- 4. Fairbairn's Object-Relations Theory -- 5. A Review of Etiology, Dynamics, and Treatment -- 6. Vicissitudes of Empathy -- 7. Altered States of Consciousness and Glossolalia -- 8. Object Constancy -- 9. Dynamic and Developmental Issues -- 10. Juvenile Delinquency -- 11. Borderline and Narcissistic Children and Adolescents -- 12. Object-Relations Theory and Psychotherapy -- 13. The Masterson-Rinsley Concept and Beyond -- 14. Fairbairn's Object Relations and Classical Concepts of Dynamics and Structure.

ISBN

1568218478

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries