Isn't criterion A rather than B the language of psychotherapy?: Comment on Sauer-Zavala et al. (2022).

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Comments on the article by S. Sauer-Zavala et al. (see record 2022-23735-001), which presents BPD-Compass as a new intervention for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Sauer-Zavala et al. have written a stimulating article that challenges fixed beliefs about the treatment of personality disorders and offers the first attempt to design a treatment according to the heuristic framework of the alternative model of personality disorders. This article presents several elements of the direction our field is developing to but may have underrated the importance of Criterion A in designing good-quality generic PD treatment. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).