Treatment of the Borderline Adolescent: A Developmental Approach

by James F. Masterson

PART ONE THE BORDERLINE ADOLESCENT -- The Need for Treatment, A Developmental Theory: A Separation-Individuation, Failure, The Clinical Picture, Feelings of Abandonment: The Six Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Parents: An Overview, The Parents: The Tie That Binds-Clinging, PART TWO THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS: EVPATIENT Theory of the Process, Phase I: Testing, Phase II: Working Through, Casework Treatment of the Parents, Phase II: Joint Interviews, Phase III: Separation, -- Results: Continuity and Change, -- PART THREE THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS: OUTPATIENT Nancy: Clinical History, Hospital Treatment, and First Outpatient Crisis, Nancy: Second Crisis To Termination, Bill, Helen, and Grace: Follow-up Summaries, PART FOUR OTHER THERAPEUTIC FACTORS Differential Diagnosis, Indications, and Contraindications; Countertransference, Outpatient Treatment Alone, The Psychiatric Dilemma of Adolescence Revisited, -- Epilogue Appendix Initial and Follow-up Psychological Testing: Nancy and Bill Bibliography.

289 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972