Do mentalisation-based interventions work for patients with borderline personality disorder and chronic depression?

Completed

• Conditions: Major depression recurrent, dysthymia, borderline; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Recurrent depressive disorder

• Registration Number: ISRCTN75536830
• Lead Sponsor: otte Köhler Foundation (Lotte Köhler Stiftung) (Germany)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-09-08
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 3

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patients with a psychoanalytic treatment longer than 100 sessions
2. Aged 18 - 60 years, either sex
3. Diagnosis: major depression recurrent (DSM 296.3) or dysthymia (DSM 300.40) or borderline (DSM 301.83). Diagnosis Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) proved by an independent interviewer with the semi-structured interview Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID) I and II.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Psychosis
2. Drug or alcohol addiction
3. Organic brain diseases

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified