Object relations development and psychotherapy dropout in borderline outpatients

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 205-223

  Horner, Mark S ^a,b   Diamond, Diana ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDERLINE STATE; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; NARCISSISM; OBJECT RELATION; OUTPATIENT; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RATING SCALE; REVIEW;

EID: 0029953313     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0079648     Document Type: Review

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