Citation

Stanger R. J. Subst. Abuse Treat. 1998; 15(3): 177-182.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, North Shore University Hospital-NYU School of Medicine, Manhasset 11030, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1998, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9633029

Abstract

This paper presents a severely disturbed self-mutilating person with a chronic substance abuse history. It demonstrates how use of the immediate transactional experience is an analytic model, facilitated treatment. The authentic use of the therapist's self is endorsed as mutative in facilitating personality change in the patient. Fellow professionals are encouraged to respond to this paper in the service of fruitful analytic dialogue, in the service of promoting more effective treatment of this difficult population in equally difficult times.

Language: en