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Group-Analytic Therapy of Borderline Patients in a Day Hospital Setting

Outpatient Psychotherapy Department

Anthony Bateman

Psychotherapy Department, St Ann's Hospital, St Ann's Road, London, N15 3TH, UK

The authors discuss the treatment of borderline patients in a slow open group within a psychodynamically-informed Day Hospital. The patients formed an `anti-group', a pathological organization, thereby seeking to avoid paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxiety. Containment of staff in such a setting is essential if they in turn are to maintain their own containing function.

Key Words: anti-group • containment • pathological organization • psychic retreat

Group Analysis, Vol. 27, No. 4, 483-495 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/0533316494274014


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