title: Techniques for reducing therapy-interfering behavior in patients with borderline personality disorder. Similarities in four diverse treatment paradigms.
abstract: Successful management of patient behaviors that interfere with the process of psychotherapy is essential to treating patients with borderline personality disorder. Provocative patient behaviors that induce a strong negative reaction from the therapist must be attenuated. Strategies for doing so used in four different treatment paradigms--Kernberg's expressive psychotherapy, Linehan's dialectical behavior therapy, Benjamin's interpersonal psychotherapy, and Allen's unified psychotherapy--are examined, and striking similarities are seen. A theoretical model is proposed to explain why the techniques may be effective.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Tennessee, Memphis 38105, USA.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy