Effective Psychotherapy With Borderline Patients

" She arrived at my office th e following day at th e appointed hour, marched in, and announced with some fanfare : ' I am Ann.' Sh e promptly held up her car keys, dropped them on th e floor, and sat down next to them with her dress carelessly draped about he r. I asked if she would like to sit on a chair, stating that I would prefe r that. She shoo k her head and looked at th e rug. Then she raised her eyes, mad e a squinting grimace, and to ok her glasses off as if to show me her eyes. Sh e shook her head from sid e to side in a rather stereotyped manner and exercised her jaw, but said nothing." (p . 54)