Efficacy of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

University Hospital Muenster

Status

Completed

Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: treatment by experienced community psychotherapists

Behavioral: Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00714311

10636

DPG0802

1106/04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to find out whether Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is effective in the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Full description

Borderline personality disorder represents a sever clinical condition that affects 1-2% of the community and is characterized by a pervasive instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, as well as a marked impulsivity; up to 10% of the patients commit suicide.

Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is one psychotherapeutic approach among five that have been manualized and evaluated in RCTs. So far, TFP has not been compared to a control condition which is a crucial step in the evaluation of the efficacy of a psychosocial intervention.

This study is an RCT that compares one year of outpatient TFP to treatment by experienced community psychotherapists for borderline personality disorder.

Enrollment

104 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 45 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Written informed consent to the participation in the study
Diagnosis of BPD according to DSM-IV as assessed using the SCID-II
Age between 18 and 45 years
Sufficient knowledge of the German language

Exclusion criteria

Diagnosis of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, severe substance abuse, organic pathology, or mental retardation according to DSM-IV as assessed using the SCID-I
Diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder according to DSM-IV as assessed using the SCID-II