Cognitive analitic psychotherapy and personality disorders: review

Laura Rodríguez-Moya, Cristina Fernández-Belinchón

Abstract


The Cognitive Analytic Therapy is a kind of integrative, brief, focus and action psychotherapy, developed by A. Ryle in England in the 80´s and 90´s. At present, is a treatment reference model in that country and is frequently used to treat personality disorders, especially borderline disorder. These patients have a number of metacognitive dysfunctions which difficult the processes of awareness of the different mental states and their components. Through the model of Multiple Self-States, the goal is to help the patient to identify the self´s dysfunctional processes which he is experiencing and provide him resources to substitute them for other more adaptive.


Keywords


Cognitive; Analitic Psychotherapy; Borderline Personality Disorder; Model of Multiple Self-States



DOI: https://doi.org/10.5944/ap.10.1.7034

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2015 Facultad de Psicología. Servicio de Psicología Aplicada.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


Attribution-NonCommercial  (CC BY-NC). This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon your work non-commercially, and although their new works must also acknowledge you and be non-commercial, they don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

 

Accion Psicologica

Applied Psychology Service (SPA), Faculty of Psychology (UNED).

C/ Juan del Rosal nº 10 28040 Madrid.

email: accionpsicologica@psi.uned.es

eISSN: 2255-1271