title: Emotional processing in a ten-session general psychiatric treatment for borderline personality disorder: a case study.
abstract: This study examines the effects of a borderline-specific treatment, called general psychiatric management, on emotional change, outcome and therapeutic alliance of an outpatient presenting with borderline personality disorder. Based on the sequential model of emotional processing, emotional states were assessed in a 10-session setting. The case showed an increase in expressions of distress and no change in therapeutic alliance and tended towards general deterioration. Results suggest emotional processing may play a lesser role in general psychiatric management in early phase treatment than previously hypothezised.
authors.affiliation: University Institute of Psychotherapy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Laurent
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Berthoud
authors.forename: Ueli
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: Franz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Caspar
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pascual-Leone
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult