Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Organization: An Overview
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Patients with Borderline Personality Organization: An Overview
This chapter discusses psychodynamic psychotherapy—a psychoanalytic psychotherapy that explores the syndrome of identity diffusion and its expression in primitive tranferences as they reflect early internalized object relations of an idealized and persecutory kind. The goal of the treatment is to identify these paradigms and then to facilitate their gradual integration, so that splitting and other primitive defensive operations are replaced by more mature defensive operations and identity diffusion is eventually resolved.
Keywords: personality disorders, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, identity diffusion
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