The Borderline Child

Borderline is a particularly difficult diagnostic category - by definition something marginal, something in-between, something that changes but remains approximately and recognizably the same, in the words of one contributor to these pages. Offering solid support to their fellow practitioners, a group of clinicians share a wide range of approaches to the population of seriously disturbed children labelled borderline. Editor and child psychiatrist Kenneth S. Robson, citing the inherent instability of the diagnostic process in childhood, cements the case for gathering the array of authoritative perspectives represented here - among which are descriptive, biochemical, neurological and psychodynamic.