Recovery from borderline personality disorder in relation to the concept of “a life worth living”: a therapist perspective
Josephine Ljungberg · 2026
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Description
Josephine Ljungberg, a solo author, asks therapists what recovery from borderline personality disorder looks like, in a 2026 study. The therapy in view is dialectical behavior therapy, whose stated aim is to help clients build a life worth living. Yet how its therapists define recovery, and when it is enough to end treatment, was little studied. Ljungberg held deep interviews with eight such therapists and sorted the themes.
Therapists cast recovery as a move from suffering to a life of normal freedom. By the end of care, clients had stopped self-destructive acts and gained skills, which shifted how they saw themselves and let them build a stable life. Recovery and a life worth living feed each other, the therapists said. The study urges weaving client goals in early.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Josephine Ljungberg |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 61 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |