Differential neural response to psychoanalytic intervention techniques during structural interviewing: A single-case analysis using EEG.

Background: Previous studies detected changes in the electroencephalographic (EEG) signal as an effect of psychoanalytic interventions. However, no study has investigated neural correlates of specific psychoanalytic interventions in the EEG power spectrum yet. In the present case study, we contrasted three types of interventions (clarification, confrontation, and interpretation) and a neutral control condition during a structural psychoanalytic interview conducted while EEG was recorded.

Transference-focused psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: change in reflective function.

Borderline personality disorder is associated with deficits in personality functioning and mentalisation. In a randomised controlled trial 104 people with borderline personality disorder received either transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) or treatment by experienced community therapists. Among other outcome variables, mentalisation was assessed by means of the Reflective Functioning Scale (RF Scale).

Patients with borderline personality disorder not participating in an RCT: are they different?

Background: Despite the notion that randomized controlled trials are regarded as the gold standard in psychotherapy research, questions about their generalizability have been raised. This paper focuses on the differences between participants and eligible nonparticipants of a randomized controlled trial for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD).

Sampling And Methods: One hundred forty-two patients were screened, and 122 were found eligible for study participation.

Transference-focused psychotherapy v. treatment by community psychotherapists for borderline personality disorder: randomised controlled trial.

Background: Transference-focused psychotherapy is a manualised treatment for borderline personality disorder.

Aims: To compare transference-focused psychotherapy with treatment by experienced community psychotherapists.

Method: In a randomised controlled trial (NCT00714311) 104 female out-patients were treated for 1 year with either transference-focused psychotherapy or by an experienced community psychotherapist.