Qualitative and quantitative evaluation over six years of a slow-open group of borderline patients showed the importance of the following therapeutic factors: confrontation of the pleasure principle with the reality principle; group norms as stabilizing factors; the amplifying versus the buffering effects of the group on emotions and cognitions; acting out or acting in, remembering and working through; and narcissistic reinforcement.
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