Treatment of Borderline personality disorder, Summary

1. Problem solving counselling

2. Antipsychotics and mood stabilisers (improvement in affective instability, impulsive behavioural dyscontrol, cognitive perceptual symptoms). Only for the short term.

3. Dynamic psychotherapy- difficult

4. Expressive psychotherapy- excellent results in clinical trials

5. Dialectical behavioural therapy- Reduces self haRM, very demanding, effects last for long

5. Group therapy, transference reactions are spread across the group

6. Psychoanalytically oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy, two trials, favourable