Psihoterapija, Vol. 36 No. 1-2, 2022.
Review article
https://doi.org/10.24869/psihei.2022.58
BORDERLINE PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION, PROJECTIVE IDENTIFICATION, GRATITUDE IN PSYCHOTHERAPY
Gorana Bolić Vadlja
orcid.org/0000-0002-6003-4507
; IGA Zagreb; Neuropsychiatric Hospital “Dr. Ivan Barbot”, Popovača
Abstract
This paper is a deliberation on the story Psychosis Neurosis based on the personal experience
and use of several different theoretical concepts in an attempt to understand some aspects of the
psychotherapeutic treatment of a patient unknown to this author. Therefore, the author decided not
to give a specific diagnosis, but to offer a personal experience of the patient’s personality structure
instead. In such context, the patient seems to have a borderline organization, and the complexity
of the psychopathology of this type of patient is described, as well as the importance of projective
identification in working with borderline patients. Given that the author of this paper considers the
patient’s story (also) to be an expression of gifting, a concise account of the counterpoint in which
Melanie Klein places gratitude and envy is presented, as are some contemporary reflections on
the subject that can contribute to a more complete understanding of the story
Keywords
therapeutic relationship; borderline personality organization; projective identification; gratitude; envy
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292158
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Publication date:
24.1.2023.
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