Keeping secrets from parents: Advantages and disadvantages of secrecy in adolescence.

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Borderline personality disorder and the conversational model : a clinician's manual

This book offers therapists and patients a user-friendly guide to general principles of treatment via case examples, therapeutic conversations, and common comorbid problems. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has a suicide rate similar to schizophrenia and major depression, but for many years, it was considered intractable. The Conversational Model is scientifically-based on the research data described in Meares's Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder, and offers unique treatment protocols for the trauma associated with BPD. Rich with clinical tips and case examples, this book will help a range of mental health professionals working with patients suffering from this debilitating disorder.Introduction / by Russell Meares -- Basis of the conversational model / by Russell Meares -- Some thoughts about language / by Russell Meares -- The story of a therapeutic relationship / by Joan Haliburn and Dawn Meares -- General issues in working with patients with borderline personality disorder / by Nick Bendit and Tony Korner -- General principles of the conversational model / by Russell Meares -- Particular issues and situations / by Joan Haliburn -- Discourse correlates of the therapeutic method and patient progress / David G. Butt, Alison Moore, and Caroline Henderson-Brooks.313 page(s

A Poetics of change

The progress of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy depends on our capacity to study, in a scientific manner, the process of therapy. Since a study of this kind involves charting the waxing and waning of something as elusive as the sense of personal existence, the task has, in the past, been seen as virtually impossible. However, words, or more particularly, the way words are used, manifest such shifting states. Sophisticated linguistic analyses are available, providing the means to conduct these necessary studies. This article suggests that an ongoing sense of personal existence, which William James called "self," is multilayered, in the manner of the poetic, and that indices of such layering will reflect beneficial change. The description of this zone of experience, which might be called the synchronic, depends on contributions from Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, and Ferdinand de Saussure, An illustration of the value of a consideration of the minute particulars of the therapeutic conversation is given by means of extracts from therapy sessions seven months apart.20 page(s