Negative responses of the borderline to inpatient treatment.

@article{Sadavoy1979NegativeRO,
  title={Negative responses of the borderline to inpatient treatment.},
  author={Joel Sadavoy and Daniel B. Silver and Howard E. Book},
  journal={American journal of psychotherapy},
  year={1979},
  volume={33 3},
  pages={
          404-17
        }
}
The intense therapeutic encirclement maneuvers possible in long-term inpatient therapy of the borderline patient frequently stimulate emotional flooding and intense negative therapeutic reactions. Such reactions have understandable precipitants: a mixture of therapeutic goals, treatment methods, and defensive structures of the patient best conceptualized within an object-relations model. 
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