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Redecision Therapy with Personality Disorders: How Does It Work and What are the Results?

Pages 114-120
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article describes how redecision therapy is applied in the Psychotherapeutic Centre de Viersprong in the Netherlands. A case example demonstrates the use of redecision therapy to change the script of a 42-year-old patient who had personality problems for more than 20 years. The strengths and some weaknesses of redecision therapy are discussed, and some research on redecision therapy is described. McNeel (1977) demonstrated favorable results with a group of 15 patients. Thunnissen et al. (2008) evaluated the results of the Centre de Viersprong inpatient program with 128 patients and concluded that the effect of the program was significant. Fifty-nine percent of patients had symptom improvement that took them into a normal range, and 82% had a job 2 years after their involvement in the psychotherapeutic program.

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Moniek Thunnissen

Moniek Thunnissen, Ph.D., is a psychiatrist, director of the training program for psychiatric residents in the Mental Hospital GGZWNB in Bergen op Zoom, and head of the program for complex personality disorders in the hospital. She is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy) and works in the Netherlands in the TA Academy, where 3-and 4-year programs are given that include the Certified Transactional Analyst clinical exam and obtaining the European Certificate for Psychotherapy. For her doctoral research, Moniek investigated the effectiveness of an inpatient program for patients with personality disorders in which transactional analysis was the model of psychotherapy. She lectures often in the Netherlands and other countries on diagnosis and treatment of personality disorders. From 2007–2009 she served as ITAA Vice President of Research and Innovation. Moniek can be reached at A. Cuypstraat 32, 4625 AM Bergen Op Zoom, Netherlands; email: .