“…Regarding the Borderline Clinical Prototype findings, there have been additional proposals of approaching the treatment of borderline pathology via an integration of cognitive therapy and psychodynamic therapy, through the thoughtful merging of prevailing cognitive (e.g., Beck & Freeman, 1990) and psychodynamic (e.g., Kernberg, Selzer, Koenigsberg, Carr, & Applebaum, 1989) models of BPD treatment (Louw & Straker, 2002). Similar variations of this notion have been proposed, all with the shared root of integration as an ideal treatment approach to BPD (e.g., Links, 2015;Merced, 2015;Paris, 2015). Additionally, a case study with inpatients diagnosed with BPD demonstrated the necessity of a more flexible, and at times more structured, treatment approach with this population (Goodman, Anderson, & Diener, 2014).…”