Conceptualizing Borderline Personality Disorder Within an Emotional Disorders Framework

Case formulation of interpersonal patterns and its impact on the therapeutic process: Introduction to the issue

“…In the next few pages, we will provide a brief overview of the interpersonal and formulation‐based frames to situate them with the current literature. By focusing on interpersonal patterns, we are aware that other client features (i.e., problematic coping styles, meta‐cognitions and mentalizing, emotional processing and narrative styles) may relevant to be assessed and used for formulation purposes (e.g., Dimaggio et al, 2019; Sauer‐Zavala et al, 2019). Our assumption is that interpersonal patterns are particularly central and need specific attention.…”