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Psychotherapy of the borderline adult : a developmental approach

Title
Psychotherapy of the borderline adult : a developmental approach / by James F. Masterson.
Author
Masterson, James F.
Publication
New York : Brunner/Mazel, ©1976.

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Description
xiv, 377 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Borderline personality disorder
  • Psychotherapy
  • Adulthood
  • Schizotypal personality disorder
  • Psychotherapy
  • Adult
  • Borderline Personality Disorder
  • Schizotypal Personality Disorder
  • adults (people)
  • adulthood
  • Schizotypal personality disorder
  • Adulthood
  • Borderline personality disorder
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 359-369.
Contents
Need for treatment -- Review of the literature Separationion-individiualization failure: interpersonal Separationion-individiualization failure: intrapsychic -- Clinical picture: a developmental perspective -- Psychotherapy -- Perpetual student: "frightened, unloved, without a self" -- Perpetual student: "I'm beginning to find a self" -- Life begins at 40: "my life is going nowhere" -- Acting out the wish for reunion: "it feels good" -- Therapeutic impasse: "which way to go?" -- Abandonment depression: "if she dies, I will die" -- Homicidal rage: "I want to kill her" -- On the way to autonomy: "I no longer feel responsible for her" -- Tie that binds -- Tragedy -- Mourning -- Triumph.
ISBN
  • 0876301278
  • 9780876301272
LCCN
76016564
OCLC
  • ocm02213350
  • 2213350
  • SCSB-1251276
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library