Combination of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for patients with Personality Disorders: recent findings.

From the 80s onwards, new psychotherapeutic interventions were developed to achieve profound changes to the character pathology of the most serious cases with Personality Disorders, utilizing the existing psychiatric settings (inpatient wards or day hospitals). The latter were taken as the necessary framework (or containing, in psychoanalytic terminology) parameter for dealing with the enactments and suicidal behaviors of these patients. Psychotherapy always is multimodal, with the concomitant administration of individual and group sessions and expressive psychotherapies as well. The prevailing model is psychodynamic.