Abstract

The authors discuss the treatment of borderline patients in a slow open group within a psychodynamically-informed Day Hospital. The patients formed an `anti-group', a pathological organization, thereby seeking to avoid paranoid-schizoid and depressive anxiety. Containment of staff in such a setting is essential if they in turn are to maintain their own containing function.

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