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Differential interventions in psychotherapy of borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid personality disorders: the Masterson approach

✍ Scribed by Donald D. Roberts

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 132 KB
Volume: 4
Category: Article
ISSN: 1063-3995
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0879(199712)4:4<233::aid-cpp141>3.0.co;2-f

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✦ Synopsis

Recent years have witnessed an intensified impetus to specify psychotherapy strategies and techniques appropriate to particular psychological disorders. J. F. Masterson has formulated a developmental, self, and object relations theory which proposed diagnosis-specific interventions for the borderline, narcissistic, and schizoid personality disorders: confrontation of maladaptive defences with borderline patients, mirroring interpretation of narcissistic vulnerability with the narcissistic disorder, and interpretation of the `schizoid dilemma' with schizoid patients. This theoretical perspective will be described, and case examples will be used to illustrate the technical differences in the treatment approaches for each.

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