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Successful Psychotherapy Reduces Hypervigilance in Borderline Personality Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2007

Simkje Sieswerda ,
Arnoud Arntz  and
Merel Kindt
Simkje Sieswerda
Affiliation:
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Arnoud Arntz
Affiliation:
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
Merel Kindt
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

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The aims of the present study were to investigate whether selective attention in borderline personality disorder (BPD) is content-specific and influenced by treatment. Comparisons were made between emotional Stroop interferences of stimulus types that were related and unrelated to hypothesized BPD schemas (1) of patients with BPD (n = 24) and nonpatient controls (n = 23), and (2) of BPD patients (n = 16) at start and end of an intensive, 3-year lasting treatment. Patients with BPD showed general hypervigilance, i.e. attentional biases for both schema related and unrelated emotional stimuli. Hypervigilance was completely reduced to normalized levels in recovered patients (n = 6), but not in non-recovered patients (n = 10) at the end of treatment. The findings support the possibility of structural change in BPD.

Keywords

Selective attentionmodified Stroop testemotionsinformation processingpsychotherapy
Type
Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , July 2007 , pp. 387 - 402
Copyright
2007 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
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