Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients

Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients offers a good overview of the basic, and most clinical pertinent, literature on borderline personality. Since most books are not specific about how patients behave and how therapists should respond, the book makes a contribution by offering reasonable advice and information that clinicians can actually use.

This book’s value derives from the examination of a myriad of countertransference reactions under high-power magnification, describing them in lucid, easily understood language, and making the whole subject come alive with dramatic and convincing clinical vignettes. . . . All therapists will profit greatly from reading it, and it belongs in the bibliography of any seminar on borderline patents or countertransference. This volume is a valuable contribution to the literature.

Management of Countertransference With Borderline Patients is an open and detailed discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients. This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference that legitimizes the therapist’s reactions and shows ways to use them therapeutically with the patient.

This comprehensive volume includes an overview of common countertransference feelings that arise in treating borderline patients describes various aspects of countertransference management illustrates these aspects with detailed clinical vignettes covers gender issues in countertransference presents a detailed examination of countertransference when the therapist is pregnant

Management of Countertransference With Borderline Patients serves as a clinical guide for all mental health professionals seeking to avoid boundary violations in their clinical work.