Osebnostne motnje : implicitne predpostavke terapevtov

slovenian

2001

volume 10, issue 1

psychology    psychiatry and clinical psychology    therapy 

Društvo psihologov Slovenije
(Obvezni izvod spletne publikacije)

Patients with personality disorder are a group of people with high risk for developing different psychopathologic phenomena from Axis I mental disorders. Therefore many transference-countertransference problems may occur. The patient-therapist relationship is also under the influence of the implicit presumptions of the therapist. The aim of this article is to identify these presumptions in two groups of therapists - in the group of psychiatrists and clinical psychologists that have more professional knowledge about personalitydisorders and the group of general practitioners that also have an important influence on the patients' well being. The therapists were asked forfree associations to the term (personality disorders) and for presumptions about the etiology of the disorder. The associations were divided on the basisof their meaning to positive, neutral and negative. In both groups the negative associations were more frequent (53.6 % in the first and 44.5 % in the second group) than the positive associations (22 % in the first and 13 % in the second group). Between the two groups there were no significant differences between the presumptions about the etiology of personality disorders. Dominating the negative associations in the first group (psychiatrists and psychologists) were the problems with the patient's compliance, the poor prognosis, while amongst the negative associations of general practitioners the time shortage, uneasiness about the objectiveness of the patient's symptoms and wider work-related and social problems were the most pronounced.

16.09.2009