Pattern destabilization and emotional processing in cognitive therapy for personality disorders
Original Research ARTICLE Front. Psychol., 23 February 2015 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00107 Adele M. Hayes* and Carly Yasinski Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA Clinical trials of treatments for personality disorders can provide a medium for studying the process of therapeutic change with particularly entrenched and self-perpetuating systems and might reveal important principles of system transition. We examined the extent to which maladaptive personality patterns were destabilized in a trial of cognitive therapy personality disorders (CT-PD)…