Abstract
Psychotherapeutic nursing care was done for a borderline child. The care was considered from a psychodynamic point of view. The nurse's techniques of not reacting, not paying any attention to the contents of, and not interpreting the patient's speech and behavior of the primary process were effective, though nurse is a real steady character. Accepting the fantasies shown in the patient's play as displacement, watching him playing by playing together, and arranging the conditions where he can play freely, all were effective for the development of the patient's ego function. Setting up the holding environment under the nurse's consistency and framework was effective for the patient's acquisition of the object consistency. Both interviewing the patient's mother in the frame- work at appropriate times and supporting her brought the psychological stabilization to the mother. This stabilization reinforced the patient's object consistency. It was useful for the psychological stabilization of the patient.
