Reinterpreting the Borderline

Heidegger and the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder

Paul Cammell

Reinterpreting the Borderline is a timely and comprehensive analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy and its relevance to the clinical fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Cammell presents the key elements of Heidegger’s philosophy and further explores affiliations with other key philosophers influenced by Heidegger. By applying these philosophical ideas to developmental models and clinical treatments of borderline personality disorder, Cammell develops a system of ideas he terms “hermeneutic ontology,” exploring the fundamentally relational, embodied, affective, temporal, and technical aspects of existence that become problematized in the experience of “the borderline”--both for the suffering individual and the concerned clinician. Cammell posits that “borderline experience” extends beyond the suffering individual to the context of the psychotherapy itself, something in which the therapist and suffering individual must collaborate to overcome. Reinterpreting the Borderline provides a rich and complex study toward simultaneously overcoming the divide between theory and practice, philosophy and psychotherapy, and finally the borderline between suffering individuals and their concerned clinicians.

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 286 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4422-5284-4 • Hardback • August 2016 • $102.00 • (£78.00)

978-1-4422-5285-1 • eBook • August 2016 • $96.50 • (£74.00)

Series: New Imago

Subjects: Psychology / Psychopathology / Personality Disorders, Psychology / Personality

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Heidegger and the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder

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Reinterpreting the Borderline is a timely and comprehensive analysis of Heidegger’s philosophy and its relevance to the clinical fields of psychiatry, psychotherapy, and psychoanalysis. Cammell presents the key elements of Heidegger’s philosophy and further explores affiliations with other key philosophers influenced by Heidegger. By applying these philosophical ideas to developmental models and clinical treatments of borderline personality disorder, Cammell develops a system of ideas he terms “hermeneutic ontology,” exploring the fundamentally relational, embodied, affective, temporal, and technical aspects of existence that become problematized in the experience of “the borderline”--both for the suffering individual and the concerned clinician. Cammell posits that “borderline experience” extends beyond the suffering individual to the context of the psychotherapy itself, something in which the therapist and suffering individual must collaborate to overcome. Reinterpreting the Borderline provides a rich and complex study toward simultaneously overcoming the divide between theory and practice, philosophy and psychotherapy, and finally the borderline between suffering individuals and their concerned clinicians.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Pages: 286 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-4422-5284-4 • Hardback • August 2016 • $102.00 • (£78.00)

978-1-4422-5285-1 • eBook • August 2016 • $96.50 • (£74.00)

Series: New Imago

Subjects: Psychology / Psychopathology / Personality Disorders, Psychology / Personality

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Paul Cammell, PhD, is a psychiatrist, academic, and psychoanalytic psychotherapist, originally trained in philosophy. While he practices at Flinders Medical Centre and teaches at Flinders University, South Australia, he also serves as a Regional Director and National Chair of psychotherapy training for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry.

Reinterpreting the Borderline

Heidegger and the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder

Paul Cammell

Reinterpreting the Borderline

Heidegger and the Psychoanalytic Understanding of Borderline Personality Disorder

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