Patient personality and therapist response: an empirical investigation.

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 AbstractObjectives: This research aims at the empirical study of resistance and transference twin factor in patients with and without personality disorders. Method: In this empirical study with repeated measurements, 26 subjects with personality and anxiety disorders and 26 subjects with anxiety disorder without personality disorders were randomly assigned to two experimental and control subgr...

Clinicians' emotional responses and Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual adult personality disorders: A clinically relevant empirical investigation.

The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between level of personality organization and type of personality disorder as assessed with the categories in the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM; PDM Task Force, 2006) and the emotional responses of treating clinicians. We asked 148 Italian clinicians to assess 1 of their adult patients in treatment for personality disorders with the Ps...

Clinical Neuropsychiatry (2016) 13, 6, 94-99 TherapisT variabiliTy in The Task/goal dimension of The early working alliance predicTs ouTcome in exposure and response prevenTion TreaTmenT for obsessive-compulsive disorder

Objective: The importance of a strong working alliance is assumed to be important in exposure and response prevention (ERP) treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). During the first sessions, the therapist aims to achieve agreement with the patient on the tasks and goals of therapy by formulating a treatment plan. The aims of the study were to explore the predictive role of therapistan...

Unpacking the effects of therapist responsiveness in borderline personality disorder: motive-oriented therapeutic relationship, patient in-session experience, and the therapeutic alliance.

The role of optimism in the process of schema-focused cognitive therapy of personality problems.

The aim of this study was to examine the determinants and effects of optimism in the process of schema-focused cognitive therapy of personality problems. The sample consisted of 35 patients with panic disorder and/or agoraphobia and DSM-IV Cluster C personality traits who participated in an 11-week residential program with one symptom-focused and one personality-focused phase. This study examin...