Preparation for treatment, group process and time boundaries are presented as components of a treatment model designed to respond to specific problems inherent in the nature of borderline personality disorder. A pilot study of the proposed treatment model is underway and one case illustration from this study is described to illustrate the adaptation to this treatment of a borderline patient with an extensive prior history of individual treatment.
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