DYNAMICALLY ORIENTED PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH BORDERLINE PATIENTS

This article outlines a basic framework and strategy for a dynamically oriented psychotherapy with borderline patients. Focus includes arran gements and guidelines for psychotherapy, neutrality, the stability of the therapeutic environment, the therapeutic alliance, transference, countertransference, activity of the therapist, types of interventions , style of interventions, interventions regarding core difficulties, t he conceptual framework of anxiety and defense, the differentiation be tween analytically oriented and dynamically oriented psychotherapy tre nds in the psychotherapy and termination.