Focus of the Volume

This volume focuses on treatment issues pertaining to patients with borderline psychopathology.

Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

A section on psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy (with contributors by V. Volkan, H. Searles, O. Kernberg, L. B. Boyer, and J. Oremland, among others) is followed by a section exploring a variety of alternative approaches.

Alternative Approaches

The latter include psychopharmacology, family therapy, milieu treatment, and hospitalization.

Concluding Essay

The editors' concluding essay discusses the controversies and convergences among the different treatment approaches.