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What makes a psychiatric hospital psychoanalytic? I assume that this basic question will be handled by other writers on this section of the book, in particular by Dr Ermann. I also assume that a more elementary question, if not just a rhetorical one -- whether we need psychiatric hospitals or not -- is going to be of little concern to us here, allowing us to concentrate, instead, on a much more realistic and complicated question: what are psychiatric hospitals good for? My contention is that one of the main justifications for the existence of psychiatric and, specifically, psychoanalytic hospitals is the treatment of borderline patients -- patients with the diagnosis of borderline disorder.
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Hartocollis, P. (1985). Hospital Treatment of the Borderline Patient: Indications and Therapeutic Strategy. In: Pichot, P., Berner, P., Wolf, R., Thau, K. (eds) Psychiatry the State of the Art. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4697-5_33
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