Volume 21 (2024), Edition 4

The introduction of the alternative DSM-5-model of personality disorders and the latest changes regarding the ICD-11 point out the implementation of dimensional personality models in terms of classification systems. This movement predestines for a...

Against the background of the new ICD-11 diagnosis, starting points for therapeutic work are presented in an integrative methodological manner. The therapeutic handling of suicidality plays a role here, as does the improvement of a controlled...

An illness leading to death is a borderline experience that is difficult to bear. It is accompanied by fear, impotent rage and offence. This particular existential challenge becomes even more acute in patients with narcissistically accentuated...

Personality disorders in old age have so far received little attention in clinical practice and research. However, recent epidemiological studies now show that they are more common than previously assumed, which applies in particular to...

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental distress has increased in older people. Transdiagnostic factors such as trauma, personality traits, mentalization and emotion regulation are relevant for the development and maintenance of mental...