This guide for psychotherapists, supervisors, researchers, and others in the helping professions shows how to deal with reactions to challenging patients, especially those with borderline personality disorder, and offers suggestions for professional practice and training drawn from research in psychotherapy and social psychology. Part 1 presents cognitive-behavioral, person-centered, and experiential psychotherapy frameworks for dealing with the therapist's negative emotions and discusses the value of increasing cultural competence for managing difficult clients. Part 2 is entirely devoted to borderline personality disorder, with chapters on the dialectical behavior therapy perspective and transference-focused psychotherapy. Part 3 gives suggestions for managing negative reactions in other disorders, such as chronically depressed clients, narcissistic disorders, and clients who use drugs and alcohol. Wolf teaches psychology and psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)