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The Borderline Dynamic and the Body

Dates:    Sunday, 13 June 2009
Venue:    Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, London
Fee:      £95
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is an elusive and puzzling phenomenon. Borderline patterns of organisation are active across the continuum of intrapsychic and interpersonal fields and borderline relationships appear equally challenging for clients and therapists alike. Both may feel attacked, invaded, helpless, misunderstood or unappreciated by the other. But the borderline dynamic is also particularly apparent as a bodily experience for both client and therapist.

Hyper arousal and catastrophic anxieties, both cardinal features of BPD, suggest disturbances of very basic functions and indicate that the organism is in a state of somatic disorganisation. Chronic dis-regulation of the autonomic nervous system, a lack of muscular ego and inadequate surface boundaries reflect deficiencies in psycho affective maturation and failures to develop a differentiated psyche-soma relationship. In the therapeutic relationship, body and psyche of the therapist are impacted by and respond to such disorganized or dissociated psyche and body states.

This seminar explores clinical perspectives to psychological and somatic phenomena and disturbances commonly experienced by borderline individuals and their therapists. Participants are invited to contribute clinical case material for exploration.