A PROFILE OF SPECIFIC PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC ACTIONS FOR BORDERLINE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY - PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PSYCHOANALYSIS

To enlarge our treatment armamentarium, new treatment approaches are p resented to address major disturbances in the mind that previously hav e not been adequately handled. These new psychotherapeutic skills are linked conceptually to new paradigms that widen the therapeutic scope. It is suggested that a new name be given to these new approaches for developmental arrests to contrast it with psychoanalysis proper and ps ychoanalytic psychotherapy. The new name would be psychotherapeutic ps ychoanalysis, and it would exist along an overall continuum with psych oanalysis proper and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.