1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Borderline Patients. 2. Changing Clinical Perspectives. 3. The Borderline Concept. 4. The Borderline State and Character Disorders -- Pt. II. The Psychosomatic Focus. 5. Splitting Mechanisms and the Treatment Process. 6. The Concrete Patient, Massive Trauma, and the Psychosomatic Focus -- Pt. III. The Therapeutic Process. 7. The Holding Environment. 8. Psychic Structure, the Transitional Space, and the Analytic Introject. 9. The Psychoanalytic Paradox and the Transitional Space. 10. Kernberg's Expressive Therapy. 11. Kohut's Self Psychology. 12. The Unsettled Issue of Interpretation
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