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Under the impact of new clinical experiences and empirical research in the last twenty years, the psychodynamic psychotherapy for borderline patients has evolved into a more exploratory, expressive direction. The supportive psychotherapy approaches that were formerly recommended as treatment of choice have been losing their appeal. Differences persist, however, regarding the extent to which the psychotherapy should be purely analytic, exploratory, or expressive, or should combine expressive and supportive features, at least in the initial stages of treatment.
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Kernberg, O.F. (1999). The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Borderline Patients. In: Derksen, J., Maffei, C., Groen, H. (eds) Treatment of Personality Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6876-3_13
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