I hope you like the book Rapunzel. I did. And I learned a lot about myself too. My therapist likes Masterson and my psychiatrist respects his ideas. Here are a few quotes to wet your appetite.

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"Abandonment depression is actually an umbrella term beneath which ride the six Horsemen of the Psychic Apocalypse: Depression, Panic, Rage, Guilt, Helplessness (hopelessness), and Emptiness (void). Pg 61

There are three types of therapy beneficial for the borderline patient: shorter-term, intensive analytic psychotherapy, and counseling. Pg. 135

The goal of shorter-term therapy is not to work through the abandonment depression but to repair the defects in ego functioning and improve self-activation. … The patient’s self-image and self-assertion improve, along with her perception of reality, but the impaired real self is not fully overcome and the abandonment depression is still present. Pg. 135

… [Intensive analytic psychotherapy’s] primary goal is to remove the defenses against the abandonment depression and to reactivate the real self in order to bring on the abandonment depression in full force for the purpose of working it through in the close therapeutic relationship. … As the patient goes back deeper and deeper, the abandonment depression occurs, with all six psychic horsemen. Pg. 136

Counseling is indicated for those patients who do not have sufficient ego strength to benefit from psychotherapy: if required to give up their defenses they would become psychotic. Counseling does not require the therapist to maintain therapeutic neutrality, so that a wide range of activities become possible, such as advice, suggestion, guidance, medication, and environmental manipulation. Pg. 147-148"

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