RESUMO
Psychotherapies recommended for borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be difficult to implement in public hospitals. For example, in Chile, patients with BPD generally receive only pharmacotherapy, which is far from sufficient. This report describes a group psychotherapy approach called Intermittent-Continuous Eclectic Therapy (ICE) developed to treat patients with BPD. Results are presented from a small pilot study in which 15 outpatients with BPD between 15 and 40 years of age treated with ICE were followed for 1 year. In this small group of patients, improvements were seen in self-aggression and general symptoms. These preliminary findings suggests that ICE may be a useful option for treating BPD in real-world clinical settings and that more research in this area is warranted. A case report illustrating the implementation of ICE is also presented.
Assuntos
Transtorno da Personalidade Borderline/terapia , Psicoterapia de Grupo/métodos , Psicoterapia/métodos , Adolescente , Adulto , Transtorno da Personalidade Borderline/diagnóstico , Transtorno da Personalidade Borderline/psicologia , Chile , Feminino , Seguimentos , Humanos , Pacientes Desistentes do Tratamento/psicologia , Projetos Piloto , Retratamento , Comportamento Autodestrutivo/prevenção & controle , Comportamento Autodestrutivo/psicologia , Tentativa de Suicídio/prevenção & controle , Tentativa de Suicídio/psicologiaRESUMO
Se describe una nueva terapia para pacientes con trastorno de personalidad limítrofe. Este enfoque es ecléctico, lo que alude al uso de técnicas extraídas de diferentes terapias que han probado ser útiles para el tratamiento de estos pacientes. Se describen los principios básicos de la terapia tales como el concepto intermitente-continuo y su naturaleza ecléctica. Estos tres conceptos le dan el nombre ICE a esta psicoterapia.
