HOLDING AND TREATING SEVERE DISTURBANCE IN THE NHS: THE CONTAINMENT OF BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS IN A THERAPEUTIC ENVIRONMENT

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1752-0118.2001.tb00008.x
• Publication Date: 2006-11-17T19:55:05Z
• Authors: Jean White; Denise Berry; Joy Dalton; Geoff Napthine; Bill Prendeville; Judith Roberts
• Keywords: Psychodynamics; Psychodynamic Psychotherapy; Psychiatric hospital; Therapeutic community

ABSTRACT People who have been assessed as suffering from borderline personality disorder are notoriously difficult to treat or help either within individual psychoanalysis psychotherapy a hospital day centre. The treatment milieu is most commonly that of psychiatric hospital. purpose this paper explore some the therapeutic challenges in working with client group, and then look at what has being achieved Belle Ridley Day Hospital, run on psychodynamic lines which based Waterlow Unit North London.