PMID- 20810254
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20120214
LR  - 20200109
IS  - 1778-3585 (Electronic)
IS  - 0924-9338 (Linking)
VI  - 26
IP  - 7
DP  - 2011 Oct
TI  - Long-term effects of transference interpretation in dynamic psychotherapy of 
      personality disorders.
PG  - 419-24
LID - 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.05.006 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Only a few treatment studies of personality disorders (PD) patients 
      are on longer-term psychotherapy, general outcome measures are used, and 
      follow-up periods are usually short. More studies of long-term therapies, using 
      outcome measures of core psychopathology, are needed. METHOD: This study is a 
      dismantling randomized controlled clinical trial, specifically designed to study 
      long-term effects of transference interpretation. Forty-six patients with mainly 
      cluster C personality disorders were randomly assigned to 1 year of dynamic 
      psychotherapy with or without transference interpretations. The outcome measures 
      were remission from PD, improvement in interpersonal functioning, and use of 
      mental health resources in the 3-year period after treatment termination. 
      RESULTS: After therapy with transference interpretation PD-patients improved 
      significantly more in core psychopathology and interpersonal functioning, the 
      drop-out rate was reduced to zero, and use of health services was reduced to 50%, 
      compared to therapy without this ingredient. Three years after treatment 
      termination, 73% no longer met diagnostic criteria for any PD in the transference 
      group, compared to 44% in the comparison group. CONCLUSIONS: PD-patients with 
      co-morbid disorders improved in both treatment arms in this study. However, 
      transference interpretation improved outcome substantially more. Long-term 
      psychotherapy that includes transference interpretation is an effective treatment 
      for cluster C personality disorders and milder cluster B personality disorders.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
FAU - Hoglend, P
AU  - Hoglend P
AD  - Department of psychiatry, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 85, Vinderen, 0319 Oslo, 
      Norway. p.a.hoglend@medisin.uio.no
FAU - Dahl, H-S
AU  - Dahl HS
FAU - Hersoug, A G
AU  - Hersoug AG
FAU - Lorentzen, S
AU  - Lorentzen S
FAU - Perry, J C
AU  - Perry JC
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Randomized Controlled Trial
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20100831
PL  - England
TA  - Eur Psychiatry
JT  - European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists
JID - 9111820
SB  - IM
MH  - Health Resources/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Interpersonal Relations
MH  - Outcome Assessment, Health Care/methods
MH  - Patient Dropouts/psychology/statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Personality Assessment
MH  - Personality Disorders/diagnosis/*therapy
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
MH  - Psychological Techniques
MH  - Psychotherapy/*methods
MH  - Remission Induction
MH  - Time
MH  - *Transference, Psychology
EDAT- 2010/09/03 06:00
MHDA- 2012/02/15 06:00
CRDT- 2010/09/03 06:00
PHST- 2010/01/27 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/04/15 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/05/27 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/09/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/09/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/02/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0924-9338(10)00138-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.05.006 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Eur Psychiatry. 2011 Oct;26(7):419-24. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2010.05.006. Epub 
      2010 Aug 31.