title: Gender aspects in the planning of psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the study was to generate hypotheses for examining gender-specific variables with predictive value for the planning of successful psychotherapy in patients with borderline personality disorder.
  
  
  METHODS
  Anxiety, aggression, interpersonal problems, locus of control and self-concept were investigated in twenty psychiatric inpatients before and after psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy lasting for six weeks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Women in gender-matched patient-therapist dyads gained insight into relationships between anxiety, aggression and interpersonal problems to the extent that they experienced them as ego-syntonic problems and as a concern of their own self-concept, and were therefore able to engage in further outpatient psychotherapy. Men more often remained in regressive resistance and in narcissistically boosted conviction of self-efficacy, with simultaneous persistence of aggression and non-engagement in further psychotherapy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results underline the importance of considering gender role stereotypes and suggest the significance of gender-sensitive attitudes in dealing with aggression and exploring attachment styles and reflective functioning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Austria, henriette.loeffler-stastka@meduniwien.ac.at.
authors.forename: Henriette
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Löffler-Stastka
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ponocny-Seliger
authors.forename: Theodor
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Meissel
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Springer-Kremser
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001317:Austria / Q000453:epidemiology; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011379:Prognosis; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018570:Risk Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome