Abstract:Borderline personality (BP) is prevalent in clinical populations and notoriously difficult to treat. Reasons for this difficulty include complexity of presentation, overall severity of functioning, premature discontinuation and difficulty establishing a therapeutic alliance. Brief treatments for BP are considered, and specific therapeutic goals with potential amenability to brief approaches are discussed, with a focus on the integrative combination of various modalities. It is noted that brief treatments have … Show more
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