Edge of Experience

This book deals with problems related to the analysis and treatment of borderline and psychosomatic patients. It demonstrates how psychoanalytic practice has had to accomodate the range of "borderline syndromes" and produce new models of theory and treatment. Preface -- Introduction -- Psychoanalytic treatment with psychosomatic patients -- Sounds of the soma -- Day hospital treatment of borderline personality disorder and the containment of enactment -- On the therapist’s reverie and containing function -- Psychodynamic therapy of severe personality disorders -- Self-envy and intrapsychic interpretation in borderline states -- Lust for love