title: [Psychotherapeutic treatment of personality disorders].
abstract: Treating patients with personality disorders presents a major challenge due to their maladaptive interpersonal styles which affect the therapeutic relationship. A number of therapeutic approaches using psychodynamic, behavioural, and other origins have been developed to treat patients with personality disorders, most of them dealing with borderline personality disorder. Overall, only a few controlled therapy studies have been carried out to document therapy effectiveness. However, available research indicates that psychotherapy has substantial effects even in personality disorders. From a vast literature based on case reports, therapeutic recommendations are presented for specific personality disorders.
authors.affiliation: Hospital for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Luisenstr. 3, D-53604 Bad Honnef, Germany. woeller.rhein-klinik@johanneswerk.de
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Woeller
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Tress
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy