Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Progress and Remaining Challenges
Related Experiment Video
Updated: Mar 6, 2026

Use of a Psychophysiological Script-driven Imagery Experiment to Study Trauma-related Dissociation in Borderline Personality Disorder
Published on: March 8, 2018
Paul S Links1,2,3,4, Ravi Shah5,6,7,8, Rahel Eynan5,6,7,8
1Lawson Health Research Institute, Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, London, Canada. paul.links@lhsc.on.ca.
Purpose:
The main purpose of this review was to critically evaluate the literature on psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder (BPD) published over the past 5 years to identify the progress with remaining challenges and to determine priority areas for future research.
Method:
A systematic review of the literature over the last 5 years was undertaken.
Results:
The review yielded 184 relevant abstracts, and after applying inclusion criteria, 16 articles were fully reviewed based on the articles' implications for future research and/or clinical practice.
Conclusion:
Our review indicated that patients with various severities benefited from psychotherapy; more intensive therapies were not significantly superior to less intensive therapies; enhancing emotion regulation processes and fostering more coherent self-identity were important mechanisms of change; therapies had been extended to patients with BPD and posttraumatic stress disorder; and more research was needed to be directed at functional outcomes.
More Related Videos
Related Concept Videos
Borderline Personality Disorder
Genetic and Environmental Contributions
Borderline Personality...
Psychotherapy
Personality Disorders: Paranoid and Schizoid
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Paranoid personality disorder is...
Psychodynamic Therapy
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
Personality Disorders: Schizotypal and Histrionic
Schizotypal Personality Disorder: Eccentric Behavior and Social Withdrawal
Schizotypal personality disorder is marked by odd or eccentric...

