Download or read book Treatment of Patients in the Borderline Spectrum written by William W. Meissner and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1988 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Dr William Meissner offers a concrete approach to the therapy of borderline patients. For Meissner, the term borderline does not refer to one diagnostic entity, but rather to a series of entities of varying degrees of pathological organization, reflecting a range of structural and functional levels. This shift in viewpoint has crucial implications for clinical treatment. It calls for a variety of psychotherapeutic strategies and a more flexible, more responsive therapeutic schema correlated to the patient's level of pathology.