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Emotional processing in a ten-session general psychiatric treatment for borderline personality disorder: a case study
Laurent Berthoud1, Ueli Kramer, Franz Caspar
1University Institute of Psychotherapy, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Department for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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.
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