What Are Personality Disorders?
6. What Therapies Are Commonly Prescribed?
Talk therapy, in which a psychologist or trained counselor helps a patient uncover possible reasons for his or her behavior, can be helpful for those who truly do not understand the troubling ways in which they act. Cognitive-behavioral therapy, which aims to retrain patients’ behavior based on changing their thought patterns, can also help.
Dialectical behavioral therapy can be life-changing for patients who are willing to comply with the treatment. DBT was developed specifically for patients with borderline personality disorder, but it can be useful for other personality disorders as well.
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