Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-339) and index.
Contents
Attachment and Reflective Function -- Psychological Organization and the World of Mental Representations -- Trauma, Vulnerability, and the Development of Severe Personality Disorders -- Antisocial and Narcissistic Children and Adolescents -- Histrionic and Borderline Children and Adolescents -- Beginning Treatment: Creating a Secure Base and a Representational Mismatch -- Early Stages of Treatment: Forming the Alliance and Enhancing Reflective Function -- Middle and Late Stages of Treatment: Using Connection to Move toward Integration -- Residential Treatment and the Continuum of Services -- Pharmacological Treatment.