[The working alliance in inpatient treatment for personality disorders and its connection with patient characteristics: an exploratory study].

Background: The working alliance between therapist and patient has been investigated frequently, but much less is known about the working alliance in specific patient groups in specific settings.

Aim: To obtain insight into the characteristics of the working alliance in intensive inpatient psychotherapy involving patients with severe personality disorders, and to pay special attention to patient characteristics such as diagnosis and attachment.

Method: At the end of the first phase of treatment we collected, on the basis of questionnaires, information about the working alliance and attachment of 60 patients with a severe personality disorders who had received inpatient psychotherapy.

Consistency of reporting sexual and physical abuse during psychological treatment of personality disorder: an explorative study.

The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of decreasing, consistent and increasing reports of sexual and physical abuse after 12 months of long-term psychological treatment of personality disorders, to investigate demographic and clinical characteristics predictive of inconsistency of reporting abuse, and to explore whether autobiographical memory may account for this inconsistency. In 229 clinical participants with an SCID II diagnosed personality disorder, 180 (78.6%) reported the same instances of invasive sexual and/or physical abuse on a trauma questionnaire (SPAQ) at baseline and follow-up, 25 (10.

Word use of outpatients with a personality disorder and concurrent or previous major depressive disorder.

In a recent study, Rude, Gortner, and Pennebaker (2004) found word use to be related to depression and vulnerability to depression in the essays of college students. We sought to replicate and extend these findings in a clinical sample. Written essays of 304 psychiatric outpatients with a personality disorder and a mixed psychiatric profile on DSM-IV axis-I and 108 healthy controls were examined with word count software.

Reduced specificity of autobiographical memory in Cluster C personality disorders and the role of depression, worry, and experiential avoidance.

The study objective was to investigate whether, compared with nonclinical controls, participants with an avoidant, dependent, or obsessive-compulsive Cluster C personality disorder (PD) manifested reduced levels of memory specificity and whether the association of Cluster C PDs with memory specificity is mediated by repetitive negative thoughts and experiential avoidance. The Autobiographical Memory Test (R. J.

Effects of sad mood on autobiographical memory in older adults with and without lifetime depression.

Objectives: The main objective of this study was to determine whether reduced autobiographical memory specificity is also a marker for depression in older adults. To answer this question two experiments and a prospective longitudinal clinical study were executed with the autobiographical memory task (AMT) as measure for memory specificity. The objective of the 1st experimental study was to assess the influence of a negative mood induction versus the effect of multiple testing in a neutral condition in 58 never depressed (ND) elderly.