31st January 2024

Psychotherapy

This is largely the treatment of choice for personality disorders. Psychotherapeutic interventions should be individualised to each patient. The main types of psychotherapeutic interventions are:

• Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (Marsha Linehan): Skills training and mindfulness.
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Aaron Beck): Collaborative restructuring of unhelpful beliefs.
• Cognitive Analytical Therapy (Anthony Ryle): Combined CBT and analytic approaches.
• Mentalisation-Based Therapy (Antony Bateman): Mutual understanding of feelings and behaviour.
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (Steven Hayes and Robert Zettle): Structured acceptance and mindfulness.
• Schema-Focused Therapy (Jeffrey Young): Changing maladaptive patterns of feelings and behaviour.
• Transference-Focused Therapy (Otto Kernberg): Self-understanding in relationships.
• Systems Training for Emotional Predictability and Problem Solving “STEPPS” (Nancee Blum)
• Nidotherapy (Peter Tyrer): Environmental manipulation based on the fact that environment is critical in both helping and hindering the recovery of mental health illness.