Methods of restructuring personality disorders with comorbid syndromes

This article reviews the current comorbid clinical syndromes often present in the personality disordered client and offers both theoretical and practi cal guidelines based on research, theory, and clinical experience. A case o f a client with a mixed dependent/avoidant personality disorder and comorbi d anxiety disorder is presented, along with transcripts of the last phase o f treatment, to demonstrate the process and technique of short-term restruc turing psychotherapy, an integrative treatment approach based on psychodyna mic principles and utilizing three methods of restructuring-defensive, affe ctive, and cognitive. (C) 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.