Treating personality disorder after dsm 5 era. hot topics and compairing models

Journal title PSICOBIETTIVO
Author/s Giuseppe Nicolò, Antonino Carcione
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2014/2
Language Italian Pages 17 P. 29-45 File size 556 KB
DOI 10.3280/PSOB2014-002003
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Patients with Personality Disorders despite being one of the biggest challenges for mental health services (up about 15% of the clinical population) rarely receive a complete and integrated treatment as provided by the literature, they are usually treated with a pharmacological approach to reduce symptoms. This paper will discuss the publication of the DSM 5 and its implication in treatment, in particular the pattern of treatment of Terzocentro of Cognitive Psychotherapy in Rome that promoted the research on meta-cognition and on severe patients will be described and analyzed.

Keywords: Personality Disorders; DSM 5; Meta-cognition; Interpersonal Meta-cognitive Psychotherapy; Integrated Treatment.

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Giuseppe Nicolò, Antonino Carcione, Trattare i disturbi di personalità dopo il dsm 5. Problemi aperti e modelli a confronto in "PSICOBIETTIVO" 2/2014, pp 29-45, DOI: 10.3280/PSOB2014-002003