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Negative Responses of the Borderline to Inpatient Treatment

The intense therapeutic encirclement maneuvers possible in long-term inpatient therapy of the borderline patient frequently stimulate emotionalflooding and intense negative therapeutic reactions. Such reactions have understandable precipitants: a mixture of therapeutic goals, treatment methods, and defensive structures of the patient best conceptualized within an object-relations model.

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