Affect regulation in psychoanalytic treatments of patients with a borderline personality disorder–psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy–a comparison

Figure 1 Course of Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-items 76 and 116. Course of sensible Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-Items 076 (‘7’, black) and 116 (‘11’, grey) both assessing “projective identification” (Item 076: “Manages to elicit in others feelings similar to those he or she is experiencing” (e.g., when angry, acts in such a way as to provoke anger in others; when anxious, acts in such a way as to induce anxiety in others); Item 116: “Tends to see own unacceptable feelings or impulses in other people instead of in him/herself.”). Disrupted line: Broken off treatment, continuous line: Completed treatment; tp: Half-yearly measurements showed a significant effect of time (P = 0.004). SWAP: Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure.