Most effective treatment in borderline personality disorders
Psychotherapy for patients with boderline personality disorder is an intensive investigation and has been the treatment of choice. for best results, pharmacotherapy has been added to the treatment regimen. Among the Psychotherapy the one with most positive evidence is Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) Treatment of borderline personality disorders:1. Psychoanalysis or psychoanalytical psychotherapy.2. Suppoive psychotherapy.3. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) approaches or principles4. Drug therapy: Antidepressants have been used with success in ceain patients with depression. Major depressive episode, if occurs, necessitates antidepressant therapy. Occasionally antipsychotics, lithium, valproate or carbamazepine have been used when aggression or impulsivity are prominent.Drug therapy is not the treatment of first choice in borderline personality disorder. Ref: Synopsis of Psychiatry, 11e, pg 751. A Sho Textbook of Psychiatry, Niraj Ahuja, 7th Edition, pg. no. 117
Pharmacotherapy
Behaviour therapy
Combination of both pharmacotherapy and behavioural therapy
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Personality disorders