Paradoxes in the Management of Suicidality in Borderline Patients
Abstract
Suicide risk in borderline personality disorder is appreciable. Borderline patients also make many manipulative suicide threats that pose serious therapeutic challenges. Therapists must cope with the patients’ paradoxical assertions and must develop an accurate “risk thermostat” to guide them in fashioning optimal interventions. Guidelines and case examples are offered.
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