Citation

Goodwin JM. J. Interpers. Violence 2005; 20(1): 20-25.

Affiliation

University of Texas Medical Branch, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2005, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260504268089

PMID

15618556

Abstract

This brief review traces the evolution of clinical understanding about borderline syndromes during the last three decades of the 20th century. The focus shifted from descriptive phenomenology in the 1970s to documenting linkages with childhood trauma in the 1980s. In the 1990s, effective and teachable techniques for emotional containment in these conditions were developed and evaluated for efficacy.

Language: en