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3 pages in length. Nathan Schwartz-Salant's application of Jungian archetypal approach to clients with BPD illustrates the extent to which there is more than merely the obvious method(s) by which to therapeutically treat borderline individuals. When looking at the various ways Schwartz-Salant (1989) incorporates Jungian theory to gain a better understanding of the borderline personality, one can readily surmise how the very nature of archetypal application speaks to the elements of perception, interpersonal relatedness and transference-countertransference. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to therapeutically treat borderline individuals. When looking at the various ways Schwartz-Salant (1989) incorporates Jungian theory to gain a better understanding of the borderline personality, one can readily surmise
how the very nature of archetypal application speaks to the elements of perception, interpersonal relatedness and transference-countertransference. The manner by which transference/countertransference play
into this situation is such that the individual clients may view the counselor in differing ways, establishing a precedence upon which the counselor chooses to approach each one. Myriad
patterns exist whereby borderline patients try to either manipulate what the counselor says or interpret a comment in a manner not at all intended. Clearly, one can readily surmise
how the client is not typically aware of this occurrence and must be carefully directed down this path, with some of these patterns including reflecting neediness, insecurity, isolation, compliance, defiance,
victimization and control. Failing to establish therapeutic alliance serves to hinder the counselors ability to employ the beneficial aspects of transference/countertransference, which, according to the author, can impede overall
progress (Schwartz-Salant, 1989). "In the early stages of the transference/countertransference the therapist is not experienced as a separate person but as a transitional object. The patient cannot begin
new growth until the therapist finds a way to replicate the original form of symbiotic relatedness. Loss or separation from the symbiotic partner remains the key in borderline personality
disorders. If the process is allowed to develop, eventually an internalization of the images can take place and there is a greater differentiation of self and object" (Gordon Machtiger,
1992). Schwartz-Salant (1989) notes how Jung associated the unconscious and its functioning with an assembly of archetypal symbols that inevitably guides the
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