now we turn to behavioral psychotherapy. we saw eaier in our program, the agoraphoa clin uses behavioral psychotherapy to help clients learn new behaviors for anxiety-producing situations. here it is used to help roger and tale their fear ofeights. let your eyes focus. to help don'let them wander. focus on what you see. pay attention focus. to help to what they're doing. and that tends to come across i'm in mor cy traveling heights, where there's a tall buiing ha, evenpen shopping malls with twor three stor that was--uh, is a real problem for me. there he is. heights, open spaces-- he's reay having a very hard time. see him holding the railg? he'll come down. think he'sall right, allen. finally,e turn to classical psychodynamically-based psychotherapy. its goal is to get at experiences and conflicts instilled in childhood d out ofhe patient's current awareness. in psychoanalytic forms of treatment, the basic assumption is that what needs to be done is a pern needto make-- if aerson has a neurotic disorder, th it's because th

behaviors. i think that in a, um, individual psychotherapy, in a one-to-one psychotherapy with the personality disorder patient, you have much more restricted opportunity for testing new behaviors. you have much more restricted opportunity for seeing the personality disorder behavior right front of you. if two narcissistic men are in the same group, one narcissistic man seeing another narcissistic man may able to say, "that guy is so self-centered. he never thinks about anybody but himself." and the other members may say to him, "that's exacy what youo." for many therapists, it's not a question of either individual or group work. both can be us gether. one of my patients summed it up well when she said, "in individual therapy, "i learn to understand mylf, "but in group, "i have to practice that understanding ver and over again, "and everything happens in group 1oo times quicker because m doingso many " becae borderline paties often have substance abuse problems, they need to have that treated concurrently. being involved in a.a. or n.a. provides a social support system which can be very helpful. um...b