Emotional processing as mechanism of change in brief good psychiatric management for borderline personality disorder: results of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is one of the most frequent, severe, mental conditions and is associated with a serious burden of disease. Treatment for patients with BPD involves structured psychotherapy. In addition and in order to improve access to care, psychiatric treatments are available.

Influence of Defense Mechanisms on Sport Burnout: A Multiple Mediation Analysis Effects of Resilience, Stress and Recovery.

The aims of this study were: (a) to explore the relationships between adaptive defense mechanisms (ADMs), maladaptive defense mechanisms (MADMs), stress, recovery, resilience, and sport burnout; and (b) to examine resilience, stress, and recovery as mediators of the relationship between defense mechanisms and burnout. One hundred and seventy-five athletes ( = 20.30 years, = 3.

Intensive and Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in Severely Depressed Inpatients: A Case Study and Thematic Analysis.

Psychotherapy added to usual hospital care is beneficial. This study reports on two contrasting cases, one responder and one nonresponder, from a randomized controlled trial on the effectiveness of intensive and brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (IBPP) for depressed inpatients, in which reduction in depressive severity was maintained for up to 1 year after completion of IBPP. We aimed to explore how the psychotherapist and patient interacted to work through the themes of focalization (described in the IBPP manual) and how their work was part of a potential process of change.

Lost in translation? A qualitative study of representations and management of chronic depression in general practice.

Background: GPs are on the front line for the identification and management of chronic depression but not much is known of their representations and management of chronic depression.

Objectives: To analyze GPs' representations of chronic depression and to explore how they manage it.

Methods: Three focus groups were conducted with 22 French-speaking general practitioners in Switzerland.