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Psychodynamic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder: a contemporary approach
1Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Menninger Clinic, PO Box 829, Topeka, KS 66601-0829, USA. gabbargo@menninger.edu
Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic
|April 3, 2001
Abstract:
Recent trends in the economics of mental health care threaten to undermine the use of psychodynamic psychotherapy for the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. These trends are driven in part by the assumption that such treatment of these challenging patients is very expensive. The author highlights empirical research that supports both the usefulness and the cost-effectiveness of this treatment approach. He also reviews some effective clinical strategies with borderline patients.