The Effect of Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy on Borderline Personality Disorder

Ibrahim Sari / MD Psychotherapy Institute, Istanbul, Turkey 

dribrahimsari@gmail.com

Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) is an integrative psychodynamic approach taking its roots from object relations and attachment theory and influenced by the self-psychology. Limited time and limited focus differentiate brief dynamic psychotherapy from longer-term psychotherapies. TLDP technique is applied for 20 sessions, each session for 50 minutes once a week. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of TLDP on the borderline person- ality structures such as identity diffusion, primitive defenses, impaired reality, and fear of fusion. In order to analyze this, scores of Borderline Personality Inventory (Leichsenring, 1999) are collected from 20 patients before and after the treatment.

Authors: Ibrahim Sari,

Keywords: psychotherapy, borderline personality disorder, process-outcome, time-limited dynamic psychotherapy, TLDP