Methods of restructuring personality disorders with comorbid syndromes

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey J. Magnavita

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1077-2413
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6572(199924)4:4<73::aid-sess6>3.0.co;2-0

✦ Synopsis

This article reviews the current comorbid clinical syndromes often present in the personality disordered client and offers both theoretical and practical guidelines based on research, theory, and clinical experience. A case of a client with a mixed dependent/avoidant personality disorder and comorbid anxiety disorder is presented, along with transcripts of the last phase of treatment, to demonstrate the process and technique of short-term restructuring psychotherapy, an integrative treatment approach based on psychodynamic principles and utilizing three methods of restructuring-defensive, affective, and cognitive.