Main description:

Based on two workshops held February 1990 in New York and March 1990 in San Francisco. Following the presentation and discussion of three clinical case histories, psychotherapists James F. Masterson, Marian Tolpin, and Peter E. Sifneos compare and contrast developmental, self, and object relations

Contents:

Part 1 Case Presentations and Discussions; Chapter 1 Psychotherapy of a Lower-Level Borderline Personality Disorder, Shelley Barlas Nagel; Chapter 2 Discussion of the Lower-Level Borderline Personality Disorder; Chapter 3 Psychotherapy of a Narcissistic Personality Disorder (The First Two Years), Ralph Klein; Chapter 4 Discussion of Psychotherapy of the Narcissistic Personality Disorder; Chapter 5 Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, Peter E. Sifneos; Chapter 6 Discussion of Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy; Chapter 7 Intensive Analytic Psychotherapy of a Borderline Personality Disorder, Karla R. Clark; Chapter 8 Discussion of Intensive Analytic Psychotherapy of a Borderline Personality Disorder; Part 2 Workshops; Chapter 9 Workshop, James F. Masterson; Chapter 10 Workshop, Peter E. Sifneos; Chapter 11 Workshop, Marian Tolpin; Chapter 12 Final Discussion; Part 3 Overview; Chapter 13 Comparing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, James F. Masterson;