An integrated approach to treatment of patients with personality disorders.

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We describe a framework for the application of treatment modules to the major domains of dysfunction manifested by clients with personality disorder. This integrated approach takes the clinician beyond the existing limited treatment research by using strategies and techniques from all the major treatment schools and orientations. This effort is necessary and timely because the field of personality disorders is currently struggling to further define and understand personality pathology beyond categories by articulating major dimensions of dysfunction across the personality disorder types marked by various degrees of severity.