Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Progress and Remaining Challenges

ConclusionOur 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.
Source: Current Psychiatry Reports - Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research