What is the most common reason that psychotherapy for personality disorders is so difficult to carry out successfully?
Personality disorders are ego syntonic so the patients are usually unaware of their maladaptive traits and would in fact deny having problems and blame others.
The traits are often ego-dystonic
The patients are usually too sick to use psychotherapy
These disorders respond better to medication than to psychotherapy
The patients often see the source of their problems in others, not themselves.
Personality Disorders