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Gerald Adler's book on the borderline condition is very appealing and engaging. His down-to-earth approach covers important aspects of work with the borderline patient including developmental issues, the working alliance, regression, the uses and misuses of confrontation, and the idealizing and the devaluating transference. Adler draws on different theorists, including Kohut, Winnicott, Balint, and Kernberg, to explain etiology and treatment.
Adler views the borderline patient as being in conflict between intense