Integrating psychopharmacotherapy, psychotherapy, and mental structure in the treatment of patients with personality disorders and depression.
Thus, we see that dynamically and phenomenologically, overlaps and seeming integrations exist between biologic illness and psychologic illness, between depression and personality disorders, between medication and psychotherapy, and between reparative therapy and reconstructive therapy. These relationships, for now, are best studied in the clinical laboratory of combined treatment. Full systematic descriptions and causal relationships are in the process of emerging. For this work, specific structural descriptions will be needed of depression and other Axis I illnesses apart from, and as they interact with, the structure of personality defenses.
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Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.
D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D011619:Psychotropic Drugs