Psychotherapy for the personality disorders: Working with traits

Journal/Book: Bull Menninger Clin. 1998; 62: Box 829, Topeka, KS 66601. Menninger Foundation. 287-297.

Abstract: Empirical research confirms clinical impressions that personality disorders are difficult to treat in psychotherapy. Personality pathology interferes with the therapeutic process, largely due to problems in alliance formation. Future models of treatment need to be built on a broader theory of the etiology of the personality disorders. These conditions are best understood as pathological amplifications of normal personality traits. The temporal stability of personality disorders ran be accounted for by the genetic influence on these traits. Treatment involves helping patients to develop more adaptive ways of using their underlying traits.

Note: Article Paris J, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish Hosp, Inst Community & Family Psychiat, Montreal, PQ H3T 1E4, CANADA

Keyword(s): BORDERLINE PERSONALITY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY; DEFENSE STYLES; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PERSPECTIVES; TEMPERAMENT; ENVIRONMENT; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSIS

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