Borderline personality disorders : [electronic resource] the concept, the syndrome, the patient / edited by Peter Hartocollis.

Includes bibliographical references.

Emotional turbulence / Wilfred R. Bion -- The borderline concept / André Green -- An object-relations view of borderline personality / Donald B. Rinsley -- Developmental aspects in the assessment of narcissistic and so-called borderline personalities / Margaret S. Mahler & Louise Kaplan -- The structural diagnosis of borderline personality organization / Otto F. Kernberg -- An approach to the understanding of borderline disorders / León Grinberg -- Borderline or prepsychotic conditions in childhood--A French point of view / Colette Chiland & Serge Lebovici -- The borderline syndrome: A phenomenological view / Roy R. Grinker -- Characteristics of borderlines / John G. Gunderson -- The borderline diagnosis and psychological tests: review and research / Margaret Thaler Singer -- Adolescent and familial precursors of borderline and schizophrenic conditions / Michael J. Goldstein & James E. Jones -- Considerations of the borderline syndrome: a longitudinal comparative study of borderline and schizophrenic patients / William T. Carpenter, John G. Gunderson, & John S. Strauss --

The contribution of the adoption studies to an understanding of the phenomenology and etiology of borderline schizophrenias / Paul H. Wender -- Structural change and its impediments / Otto F. Kernberg -- Hospital management of borderline patients and its relation to psychotherapy / Geald Adler -- Behavioral perspectives in the treatment of borderline patients / Howard F. Hunt -- An approach to the global treatment of the borderline patient: psychoanalytic, psychotherapeutic, and psychopharmacological considerations / G.J. Sarwer-Foner -- Psychopharmacological treatment and delineation of borderline disorders / Donald F. Klein -- Day hospital treatment for borderline patients: the institution as transitional object / Clarence Crafoord -- Group psychotherapy of the borderline patient / Leonard Horwitz --

The family treatment of the borderline patient / Arthur Mandelbaum -- Dual- and multiple-identity processes in borderline ego functioning / Harold F. Searles -- Personality organization during the recovery of a severely disturbed young child / Manuel Furer -- Primary anorexia nervosa in the borderline adolescent--An object-relations view / James F. Materson -- Affects in borderline Disorders / Peter Hartocollis -- On a quotation from Freud / Wilfred R. Bion.

Also issued online.