Description

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Providing a cost-effective treatment model that is respectful of patients' needs, their strengths, and their limitations, this book presents the first dynamic and coherent approach to group treatment for the chronically mentally ill. By structuring members' variable attendance, the flexibly bound model, which utilizes group dynamic principles to maximize therapeutic opportunities, respects the actual behavior of many chronically ill persons, making this treatment format available to a broad portion of this population. Illustrated with numerous case vignettes, the book outlines the elements of supportive treatment and therapeutic goals and then describes in detail specific strategies and interventions.

About the Author

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Michael H. Stone, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, Research Director at Middleton Psychiatric Center, and Lecturer at New York State Psychiatric Institute. The author of The Borderline Syndromes and the editor of three books on borderline and schizophrenic conditions, Dr. Stone has written 120 articles and chapters on personality disorders, psychotherapy, the psychoses and familial transmission, and the history of psychiatry. His current research focuses on traumatic antecedents in the backgrounds of patients with borderline personality.

Praise For…

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"The Fate of Borderline Patients should be carefully studied by mental health clinicians and researchers. There are very few books to which psychotherapists return, year after year, to validate clinical impressions or to gain assistance with conceptualizing difficult problems, or simply to become nourished and refreshed....This unusual book by Michael Stone is replete with clinical wisdom and original thinking. Reading it is an opportunity to receive supervision from a master clinician who has devoted his professional life to the study and treatment of borderline patients."--Richard C. Friedman, M.D. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis
 

"Remarkable...."
— American Journal of Psychiatry

"The importance of the present volume lay in its potential to enhance the predictive powers of clinicians who work with borderline patients...provides reassurance, perspective, and hope. "
— Psychoanalytic Books

"Every mental health professional working with borderline patients will enjoy this book and learn from it. "
— Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research

"It is a pleasure to read and easy to assimilate. This clarity makes the book valuable to us all who work in the front lines of patient care....I suspect this book will take it place in the ranks of other landmark longitudinal studies. It will be held in high esteem and will be quoted often by the investigators who follow and the clinicians who refer to it."
— Hospital and Community Psychiatry