Conference paper

FAMILY THERAPY AS ADDITION TO INDIVIDUAL THERAPY AND PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY IN LATE ADOLESCENT FEMALE PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER WITH COMORBIDITY AND POSITIVE SUICIDAL HISTORY

Darko Marčinko ; Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia
Vedran Bilić ; Department of Psychological Medicine, University Hospital Centre Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The treatment of patients with BPDs is more hopeful than it was in the past. During the past period, psychiatrists have become overly dependent on pharmacological treatments, neglecting psychotherapies even when they are evidence-based. There is much
stronger evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy in BPD than for any pharmacological intervention. One of the important psychotherapy for BPD is family therapy. Our work emphasized the protective role of family therapy in late adolescent female patients suffering from borderline personality disorder with eating disorder comorbidity.

Keywords

borderline personality disorder; suicidality - eating disorder; women - family psychotherapy - psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Hrčak ID:

55694

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/55694

Publication date:

30.6.2010.

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