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Empirical Evidence for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Other Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

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Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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Abstract

Writing about psychodynamic psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder (BPD) is difficult because it is not a unified approach. In fact, it is often said that psychoanalysis, although frequently used singularly, is in actuality a plural noun representing an array of theoretical ideas and technical applications. These schools broadly include ego psychology, object relations theory, self-psychology, and attachment theory.

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    Although, many of the patients referred after multiple treatment failures and it appears that these patients could be classified as BPD, diagnoses were not made using criteria consistent with a contemporary nosological framework.

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Levy, K.N., Wasserman, R.H., Scott, L.N., Yeomans, F.E. (2009). Empirical Evidence for Transference-Focused Psychotherapy and Other Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. In: Levy, R.A., Ablon, J.S. (eds) Handbook of Evidence-Based Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. Current Clinical Psychiatry. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-444-5_5

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