The effectiveness of anlytical psychotherapy based on object relationships on personality organization and defense styles on borderline personality disorder

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of analytical psychotherapy based on object relationships (transference–focused) on personality organization and defense styles of individuals with a borderline personality disorder. The research method was A-B-A single-subject design. The statistical population included all people with borderline personality disorder who were referred to the outpatient department of Zare Psychiatric Hospital and Mana Sari in the period from May to June 2019, which were 32 with the approval of a psychiatrist, of which 7 were selected by the targeted sampling method. And in two groups of analytical psychotherapy based on object relationships, 4 people and 3 people in the control group were randomly assigned and treated for 100 sessions. Data were collected in five baseline stages, intermediate stage, treatment progress, termination, and follow-up during one year, using Cronberg IPO Personality Organization Questionnaire (Kernberg, 2002) and DSQ-40 Defense Styles (Andorz & et al., 1993) Was collected. For statistical analysis, graph analysis, stable change, and recovery percentage were used. Findings showed that analytical psychotherapy based on object relationships (transference–focused) can have favorable results on the psyche of personality organization and defense styles of people with borderline personality. Successful treatment of borderline patients is much more complex than research literature shows, and treatment outcome is not successful versus failure but covers a number of functional areas. We also need more research to generalize the results