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The Management and Treatment of Personality-Disordered Patients

The use of Sequential Diagrammatic Reformulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2018

Hilary Beard ,
Martin Marlowe  and
Anthony Ryle
Hilary Beard
Affiliation:
Gable House Community Mental Health Centre, 55 Lewin Rd, Streatham, London SW16
Martin Marlowe
Affiliation:
St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1
Anthony Ryle*
Affiliation:
UMDS, St Thomas's Hospital, London SE1
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

The clinical management of patients with personality disorders is seldom satisfactory. It is suggested that the bewilderment provoked and experienced by these patients can be reduced by a careful analysis of their shifting states of mind. The construction of diagrams tracing such shifts is helpful to both patients and clinicians. Illustrative case histories are presented.

Type
Research Article
Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 156 , Issue 4 , April 1990 , pp. 541 - 545
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1990 

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