No other clinical syndrome better illustrates the richness and resources of the Jungian approach. Experts in the field offer new insights into treating the borderline personality. Papers by Schwartz-Salant, Charlton, Kacirek, Beebe, Dieck.

Contents:

Nathan Schwartz-Salant - Before the Creation: The Unconscious Couple in Borderline States of Mind

Randolph Charlton - Lines and Shadows: Fictions from the Borderline

Susanne Kacirek - Subject-Object Differentiation in the Analysis of Borderline Cases: The Great Mother, the Self, and Others

John Beebe - Primary Ambivalence toward the Self: Its Nature and Treatment

Hans Dieckmann - Formation of and Dealing with Symbols in Borderline Patients

Verena Kast - Transference and Countertransference Mirrored in Personal Fantasies and Related Fairy-Tale Motifs in the Therapy of a Patient with a Borderline Structure

Andrew Samuels - Gender and the Borderline

Sylvia Brinton Perera - Ritual Integration of Aggression in Psychotherapy

SERIES EDITORS:

Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a supervising training analyst and former president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). His most recent books include Outside Inside and All Around, Minding the Self and The Principle of Individuation. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He lectures internationally on topics related to Analytical Psychology and its applications in the contemporary world. He is publisher emeritus of Chiron Publications and is the focus of many Asheville Jung Center online seminars.

Nathan Schwartz-Salant, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of numerous books, including The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing, Narcissism and Character Transformation, and The Black Nightgown: The Fusional Complex and the Unlived Life as well as the co-editor of the Chiron Clinical Series. He is the director of the Foundation for Research in Jungian Psychology.