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Psychotherapy Research 10(2), 147-158, 2000
Psychotic and borderline patients rated their self-image and their perception of their mother and father using the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior model (SASB). The borderline patients had more negative images of themselves and their parents, especially their fathers, than did the psychotic patients and the normal subjects, while the psychotic patients' ratings did not differ much from those of the normal subjects. The self-image was related to the images of both parents for borderline patients and normal subjects, while for the psychotic patients only the image of the mother was important for the self-image. In addition, the psychotic patients did not differentiate between the poles of control and autonomy in the introjected self-image. It was concluded that borderline patients are characterized by negative attachment, while psychotic patients are characterized by poor separation from the mother and poor differentiation between autonomy and control. The paper also discusses how this may influence the patients' relations to others.
Psychotherapy Research 10(2), 159-168, 2000
Fifty-five hospital-treated patients with the ICD-10 diagnosis of recurrent depressive episode(s) were classified according to the Newcastle Depressive Diagnostic Scale as having either psychogenic (n = 25) or endogenous (n = 30) depression and interviewed using the Composite International Diagnostic Interview and the Questionnaire for Assessment of Motivation to Seek Psychotherapy. The two groups were found to differ significantly from one another in two Motivation to Seek Psychotherapy subscales (‘layman's etiology’ and ‘general expectations from therapy’). Th