ABSTRACT
Cognitive therapy for personality disorders has been developed from classical cognitive behaviour therapy. As such it will share many aspects with cognitive therapy for Axis I disorders such as depression, but there are also some important differences in characteristics and emphasis. Before emphasizing the main differences, it may be useful to summarize briefly the main components of cognitive therapy for the emotional disorders. From this comparison, we can see that there are many shared components, as outlined in Table 3.1.
