Emotion regulation and social cognition as functional targets of mechanism-based psychotherapy in major depression with comorbid personality pathology

• Verfasst von: Schnell, Knut [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Herpertz, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Emotion regulation and social cognition as functional targets of mechanism-based psychotherapy in major depression with comorbid personality pathology
• Verf.angabe: Knut Schnell, and Sabine C. Herpertz
• Jahr: 2018
• Umfang: 24 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 08.04.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of personality disorders
• Ort Quelle: New York, NY : Guilford, 1987
• Jahr Quelle: 2018
• Band/Heft Quelle: 32(2018), Supplement, Seite 12-35
• ISSN Quelle: 1943-2763
• DOI: doi:10.1521/pedi.2018.32.supp.12
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1694273741

Abstract

This article characterizes functional systems as targets of integrated modular psychotherapy for episodes of major depression (MD) with a comorbid condition of borderline personality disorder (BPD) or chronic depression (CD). Both types of comorbidities to MD are conceptualized as a trait-like concept dominated by impairments in interpersonal functioning. Despite differences in psychopathology, existing data show significant similarities in impairments of emotion regulation and social cognition in BPD and CD, thought to reflect common disease mechanisms linked to early-life adversity. The preexistence of BPD and CD and related functional impairments inhibits the remission of episodic MD and calls for mechanism-based interventions that complement existing treatments of MD by targeting these dysfunctions. Contemporary methods of psychotherapy already provide interventions to address such complicated states of comorbidity by specifically improving dysfunctions of emotion regulation and social cognition. We suggest a layout of modular interventions that can address identified dysfunctions in comorbid MD.