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Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) is a psychodynamic treatment with research support for borderline personality disorder (BPD). The authors describe an adapted form called TFP-N for people with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) or narcissistic traits. TFP-N keeps core elements like a treatment contract and an interpretive process to identify and change harmful…
The Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, now in its fourth edition (MCMI-IV), is a 175-question true-or-false test that clinicians use to identify personality problems and related clinical syndromes. It was built from Theodore Millon’s ecological-motivational theory, which says personality grows from basic survival drives and life experiences. When used alongside a…
This systematic review looked at 22 studies that tested what predicts people with personality disorders dropping out of psychotherapy. Dropout rates in the reviewed studies ranged from 10.4% to 58%. The review found consistent links between dropout and factors like younger age, substance use problems, strong emotional dysregulation, trouble tolerating…
Personality disorders are long‑lasting patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that cause major problems at work, in relationships and for the person’s own sense of self. Different studies put community rates between about 7.8% and 12.2%, with one common estimate near 8%, and rates in psychiatric in‑patients can be as…
