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Interpersonal psychotherapy for borderline personality disorder: possible mechanisms of change.

Markowitz JC, Skodol AE, Bleiberg K

Department of Personality Studies, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY10032, USA. jcm42@columbia.edu

This article describes the rationale for applying interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) to the treatment of patients who have borderline personality disorder and explains the adaptation of standard IPT to that end. The authors describe the preliminary stages of adapting IPT for a pilot study to test its feasibility and potential efficacy and speculate on potentially therapeutic mechanisms for IPT in treating patients who have borderline personality disorder.

Published 2 March 2006 in J Clin Psychol, 62(4): 431-44.
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