THE UNINTERPRETED RAGE: PROTECTING THE THERAPEUTIC ALLIANCE IN THE TREATMENT OF BORDERLINE PATIENTS.

After reviewing differing approaches to the treatment of the borderline patient, this paper describes the treatment of a patient whose negative transferences are not interpreted by the therapist; rather, the focus is on maintaining the therapeutic alliance via the awareness of the kinship selfobject function of the therapist and merger with the idealized selfobject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]