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All right, before we start this episode, I wanted to begin with an introduction on the topic.

So we will be talking about Schema-focused therapy and borderline personality disorder.

I got interested in Schema-focused therapy when I looked at studies that compared one

active treatment of borderline personality disorder with another active treatment.

I found three interesting studies, two studies that compared Schema-focused therapy to

transfer and focus therapy, which I had already seen a lot of data as it's very useful

for treating borderline personality disorder.

And it showed better outcomes than transfer to focus therapy.

So I was like, wow, that is really interesting.

And then a third study looked at it against dialectal behavioral therapy.

This was a 2018 study and they found that in this randomized trial of 24 students, 16

weekly sessions, each 45 minutes long, both had equivalent decreases in impulsiveness.

So three studies I looked at and in a future episode, I'm really going to focus in on

getting into the nuts and the bolts about the different psychotherapies and how they compare

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