Borderline Personality Disorder is the most researched of all the personality disorders, the most prevalent, with rates of 10% in outpatient and up to 20% in in-patient settings. There are many models of psychotherapy designed to work effectively with Borderline Personality Disorder. However, they have more similarities rather than dissimilarities and in general traverse the same paths. To work effectively with Borderline Personality Disorder the therapist must be prepared to deal with rather difficult transference and countertransference situations, and the complexities of the psychodynamics situated therein.
In this webinar Dr Joan Haliburn will discuss that single mechanism theories are insufficient, that co-morbidity must be taken into account, and that the forming of the therapeutic relationship - the singular necessity - depends on an understanding of attachment not only in the formation of the therapeutic relationship with safety and security, but also its effects on how the patient relates with the therapist and what the therapist must do in the face of sometimes inexplicable reactions and interactions.
Video: Working Psychotherapeutically with Borderline Personality Disorder
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Dr Joan Haliburn is a Consultant Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatrist, trained in the Conversational Model of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, in the Systems Model of Family Therapy and in Attachment Strange Situation. She is in private practice and is a faculty member of the Complex Trauma Training Unit, University of Sydney at Westmead Clinical School. She has been involved in psychotherapy research and writing since graduating in 1987. Her most recent book ‘An Integrated Approach to Short Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Clinician’s Guide’ 2017 is used in the short-term therapy training course. She has also co-edited “Humanising Mental Health Care in Australia” 2019 and has authored numerous papers in local and international journals.
