The Management of Affect Storms in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients
The Management of Affect Storms in the Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy of Borderline Patients
This chapter discusses the management of affect storms in the sessions of patients with borderline personality organization and severe regression in the transference. Borderline patients often show far better control of affect during initial interviews than they are able to maintain during effective treatment. The likelihood of periods of inordinate violence of the patient's affect, and its expression in action or countertransference, requires that patient and therapist agree in advance on the conditions of the treatment that will make management of such episodes possible. These conditions must include the maintenance of a clear and stable boundary of the therapeutic setting.
Keywords: personality disorders, affect storms, borderline personality organization, regression, transference
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