Considerable Improvement in a Case of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder in an Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, Borderline Type under Treatment with Clozapine

T. Steinert; P.-O. Schmidt-Michel; W. P. Kaschka

doi:10.1055/s-2007-979555

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Pharmacopsychiatry 1996; 29(3): 111-114
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-979555

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Considerable Improvement in a Case of Obsessive-compulsive Disorder in an Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, Borderline Type under Treatment with Clozapine

T. Steinert, P.-O. Schmidt-Michel, W. P. Kaschka

Weissenau State Mental Hospital, University of Ulm, Department of Psychiatry I, Ulm, Germany

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23 April 2007 (online)

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Abstract

We report on a 27-year-old woman with previously therapy-resistant obsessive-compulsive disorder and emotionally unstable personality disorder, borderline type, which improved considerably on treatment with clozapine. Previous treatment attempts with paroxetine, clomipramine and various classic and atypical neuroleptics, as well as extensive psychotherapeutic treatment, had proved ineffective.

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