Diagnose Borderline

The borderline personality disorder is an ambiguous phenomenon and often gives rise to diagnostic difficulties. This book offers help with the diagnosis, uses psychodynamic aspects to trace the development of individuals with the disorder, and indicates ways of treating them. The intense emotions triggered by the patients and therapists concerned are also addressed, and the book explains how these can be dealt with constructively. The theoretical explanations are illustrated with numerous helpful brief case studies.



Emeritus Prof. Udo Rauchfleisch held the Chair of Clinical Psychology at the University of Basel until 2007. He is a psychoanalyst in private practice and lectures at the Basel Psychoanalytic Institute.