Table of Contents

Foreword , Welcome , The therapeutic action in psychoanalytic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder , Transference Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) , The mentalization based approach to psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder , Psychoanalytic group therapy with severely disturbed patients: Benefits and challenges , The fiend that sleeps but does not die: Toward a psychoanalytic treatment of the addictions , Some considerations about the psychoanalytic conceptualisation and treatment of psychotic disorders , “First you were an eyebrow” and “How do I know that my thoughts are my thoughts?” , Pre-suicide states of mind , Individual and large-group identities: Does working with borderline patients teach us anything about international negotiations? , Plenary Discussion

About the Author

Paul Williams, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society and a consultant psychotherapist in the British National Health Service, as well as a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute. From 2001-2007 he was joint Editor-in-Chief, with Glen Gabbard, of the 'International Journal of Psychoanalysis'. He has written widely on the subjects of personality disorders and psychosis, and co-authored, with Murray Jackson, 'Unimaginable Storms: A Search for Meaning in Psychosis'

Reviews

"The Psychoanalytic Therapy of Severe Disturbance, edited by Paul Williams, is an idiosyncratic slice of current psychology thinking about the more severe types of psychopathology with which patients pressent to their analysts and also is an illustration of the ways in which a small group of psychoanalysts, who are committed to treating these patients, work with them... I recommend this book for those who already are familiar with the theories and general treatment methods that are illustrated within its pages."-- (01/19/2011)