60th Annual Conference

Friday, February 21
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Workshop 14
 Group Psychotherapy with Borderline Patients

 

Chair:

Lawrence Kennedy, M.D., CGP, FAGPA, Training & Supervising Analyst, Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institution, Leawood, Kansas

 

This workshop will provide participants with: 1) learning the advantages of group psychotherapy with an object relations perspective for patients with borderline personality disorder, 2) learning the special problems in treating this population with group psychotherapy, 3) learning special techniques in this treatment.

didactic-demonstration-experiential-sharing of work experiences

 

Course References:

  1. Alonso, S. (1994). Day hospital group treatment of primitive character pathology. Group. 18(2), 101-111.

  2. Bateman, A. (1994). Group analytic therapy of borderline patients in a day hospital setting. Group Analysis. 27(4), 483-495.

  3. Horwitz, L. (1990). Group psychotherapy with borderline and narcissistic patients. Bulleter Menninger Clinic, 44, 181-200.