TY - JOUR PY - 2020// TI - [Deliberate Renunciation of Coercion in the Case of Persistent Self-Destructive Behavior] JO - Psychiatrische Praxis A1 - Tschöke, Stefan A1 - Hund, Susanne A1 - Bichescu-Burian, Dana A1 - Truöl, Steve A1 - Steinert, Tilman SP - 337 EP - 339 VL - 47 IS - 6 N2 - The clinical course of borderline personality disorder with persistent suicidal communication and self-destruction is often characterized by freedom-restricting interventions, long-term hospitalization, and a lack of commitment for disorder-oriented treatment. We present the course of a 31-year-old man who was offered the free choice between disorder-oriented treatment or discharge from in-patient treatment. The clinical decision to offer the choice to the patient was based on the judgment of given capacity of self-determination except for short periods of acute crisis. Deliberate refraining from the use of coercive interventions and demanding responsibility for change from the patient paved the way for psychotherapeutic treatment and the reactivation of his own skills.

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LA - de SN - 0303-4259 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/a-1182-3252 ID - ref1 ER -