Theresa Wilberg
- Consultant; MD, PhD
Publications 2025
The societal costs of avoidant personality disorder
Personal Ment Health, 19 (1), e1644
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1644, PubMed 39572388
Publications 2024
The significance of connectedness: avoidant personality disorder patients' subjective experiences of change after attending a specialized treatment program
Front Psychol, 15, 1412665
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1412665, PubMed 39040961
"It takes time to see the whole picture": patients' views on improvement in cognitive behavioral therapy and psychodynamic therapy after three years
Front Psychiatry, 15, 1342950
DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1342950, PubMed 38559399
Minding mentalizing - convergent validity of the Mentalization Breakdown Interview
Front Psychiatry, 15, 1380532
DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1380532, PubMed 38974920
Corrigendum: Minding mentalizing - convergent validity of the Mentalization Breakdown Interview
Front Psychiatry, 15, 1479612
DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1479612, PubMed 39234622
Childhood predictors of avoidant personality disorder traits in adolescence: a seven-wave birth cohort study
J Child Psychol Psychiatry (in press)
DOI 10.1111/jcpp.14064, PubMed 39496569
Publications 2023
Improvement of personality functioning among people treated within personality disorder mental health services. A longitudinal, observational study
Front Psychiatry, 14, 1163347
DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1163347, PubMed 37229394
Societal costs of personality disorders: A cross-sectional multicenter study of treatment-seeking patients in mental health services in Norway
J Clin Psychol, 79 (8), 1752-1769
DOI 10.1002/jclp.23504, PubMed 36916214
Societal costs of personality disorders among treatment-seeking patients in Norway: the relative contribution of specific DSM-5 categories
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci, 274 (1), 139-149
DOI 10.1007/s00406-023-01655-1, PubMed 37598131
Combined group and individual therapy for patients with avoidant personality disorder-A pilot study
Front Psychiatry, 14, 1181686
DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1181686, PubMed 37215654
Countertransference in the treatment of patients with personality disorders: A longitudinal study
Psychother Res, 34 (8), 1051-1065
DOI 10.1080/10503307.2023.2279645, PubMed 37963354
Publications 2022
Is the alternative model for personality disorders able to capture avoidant personality disorder according to Section II of the DSM-5? A systematic review
Personal Disord, 13 (4), 412-417
DOI 10.1037/per0000553, PubMed 35787131
How therapists in cognitive behavioral and psychodynamic therapy reflect upon the use of metaphors in therapy: a qualitative study
BMC Psychiatry, 22 (1), 433
DOI 10.1186/s12888-022-04083-y, PubMed 35761306
The Norwegian network for personality disorders - development, contributions and challenges through 30 years
Nord J Psychiatry, 77 (5), 512-520
DOI 10.1080/08039488.2022.2147995, PubMed 36409693
A borderline focused Reflective Functioning measure - Interrater reliability of the Mentalization Breakdown Interview
Nord J Psychiatry, 77 (4), 360-366
DOI 10.1080/08039488.2022.2123040, PubMed 36244024
Avoidant and borderline personality disorder patients during the first Covid-19 wave in Norway - a survey-based comparison of therapy changes and patients' accommodations
Nord J Psychiatry, 77 (4), 336-344
DOI 10.1080/08039488.2022.2110614, PubMed 35984379
Publications 2021
Vulnerability of personality disorder during COVID-19 crises: a multicenter survey of mental and social distress among patients referred to treatment
Nord J Psychiatry
DOI 10.1080/08039488.2021.1942980, PubMed 34369842
Avoidant personality disorder and social functioning: A longitudinal, observational study investigating predictors of change in a clinical sample
Personal Disord, 12 (6), 594-605
DOI 10.1037/per0000471, PubMed 33507789
Vulnerability of personality disorder during the Covid-19 crises - a multicenter survey of treatment experiences among patients referred to treatment
Nord J Psychiatry, 76 (1), 52-63
DOI 10.1080/08039488.2021.1934110, PubMed 34126854
The Synergistic Process of Improvement in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Major Depression
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 18 (5)
DOI 10.3390/ijerph18052292, PubMed 33652563
Digging down or scratching the surface: how patients use metaphors to describe their experiences of psychotherapy
BMC Psychiatry, 21 (1), 533
DOI 10.1186/s12888-021-03551-1, PubMed 34706691
The Group Questionnaire (GQ)-Psychometric Properties Among Outpatients With Personality Disorders
Group Dyn.-Theory Res. Pract.
DOI 10.1037/gdn0000176
Psychometric evaluation of the Norwegian Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in a multisite clinical sample of patients with personality disorders and personality problems
J Clin Psychol, 78 (6), 1118-1136
DOI 10.1002/jclp.23270, PubMed 34716595
Therapists’ experiences with mentalization-based treatment for avoidant personality disorder
European Journal for Qualitative Research in Psychotherapy, 11, 143-159
PublikaID 386
More is more: Evidence for the incremental value of the SCID-II/SCID-5-PD specific factors over and above a general personality disorder factor
Personal Disord, 13 (2), 108-118
DOI 10.1037/per0000426, PubMed 33600207
Mechanisms of change and heterogeneous treatment effects in psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural therapy for patients with depressive disorder: a randomized controlled trial
BMC Psychol, 9 (1), 11
DOI 10.1186/s40359-021-00517-6, PubMed 33482927
Publications 2020
Countertransference feelings and personality disorders: a psychometric evaluation of a brief version of the Feeling Word Checklist (FWC-BV)
BMC Psychiatry, 20 (1), 141
DOI 10.1186/s12888-020-02556-6, PubMed 32228529
Social Cognition Capacities as Predictors of Outcome in Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT)
Front Psychiatry, 11, 691
DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00691, PubMed 32792996
A multi-center psychometric evaluation of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (SIPP-118): Do we really need all those facets?
Qual Life Res, 30 (2), 567-575
DOI 10.1007/s11136-020-02654-8, PubMed 33029679
Level of alexithymia as a measure of personality dysfunction in avoidant personality disorder
Nord J Psychiatry, 75 (4), 266-274
DOI 10.1080/08039488.2020.1841290, PubMed 33146059
Subjective experience of the origin and development of avoidant personality disorder
J Clin Psychol, 76 (12), 2232-2248
DOI 10.1002/jclp.23013, PubMed 32585050
Publications 2019
Measuring Personality Problems in Patients With Substance Use Disorders: A Cross-Sample Validation
J Dual Diagn, 15 (4), 324-332
DOI 10.1080/15504263.2019.1668583, PubMed 31571533
Are Impairments in Theory of Mind Specific to Borderline Personality Disorder?
J Pers Disord, 34 (6), 827-841
DOI 10.1521/pedi_2019_33_417, PubMed 30785865
Psychometric Properties of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP) in Two Samples A Norwegian Community Sample and Clinical Samples of Patients With and Without Personality Disorders
Eur. J. Psychol. Assess., 35 (5), 698-711
DOI 10.1027/1015-5759/a000436
European guidelines for personality disorders: past, present and future
Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul, 6, 9
DOI 10.1186/s40479-019-0106-3, PubMed 31143448
Specialized Treatment for Patients with Severe Avoidant Personality Disorder: Experiences from Scandinavia
J. Contemp. Psychother., 49 (1), 27-38
DOI 10.1007/s10879-018-9395-x
Struggling to be a person: Lived experience of avoidant personality disorder
J Clin Psychol, 75 (4), 664-680
DOI 10.1002/jclp.22740, PubMed 30609024
Lived Experience of Treatment for Avoidant Personality Disorder: Searching for Courage to Be
Front Psychol, 10, 2879
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02879, PubMed 31920894
Publications 2018
The Relationship Between Reflective Functioning and Affect Consciousness in Patients With Avoidant and Borderline Personality Disorders
Psychoanal. Psychol., 35 (4), 382-393
DOI 10.1037/pap0000169
Mentalization-based treatment or psychodynamic treatment programmes for patients with borderline personality disorder - the impact of clinical severity
Psychol Psychother, 92 (1), 91-111
DOI 10.1111/papt.12179, PubMed 29582581
Building a strong European alliance for personality disorder research and intervention
Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul, 5, 7
DOI 10.1186/s40479-018-0082-z, PubMed 29619226
Revised manual for the Global Assessment of Functioning scale
Eur Psychiatry, 51, 16-19
DOI 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.12.028, PubMed 29510296
Publications 2017
Contours of a causal feedback mechanism between adaptive personality and psychosocial function in patients with personality disorders: a secondary analysis from a randomized clinical trial
BMC Psychiatry, 17 (1), 210
DOI 10.1186/s12888-017-1365-4, PubMed 28583098
The Work and Social Adjustment Scale: Psychometric properties and validity among males and females, and outpatients with and without personality disorders
Personal Ment Health, 11 (4), 215-228
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1382, PubMed 28681505
A Psychometric Evaluation of the DSM-IV Criteria for Antisocial Personality Disorder: Dimensionality, Local Reliability, and Differential Item Functioning Across Gender
Assessment, 27 (1), 89-101
DOI 10.1177/1073191117745126, PubMed 29284276
Publications 2016
Primary emotional traits in patients with personality disorders
Personal Ment Health, 10 (4), 261-273
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1345, PubMed 27257161
Outpatient psychodynamic group psychotherapy - outcomes related to personality disorder, severity, age and gender
Personal Ment Health, 11 (1), 37-50
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1352, PubMed 27766761
Publications 2015
Is reflective functioning associated with clinical symptoms and long-term course in patients with personality disorders?
Compr Psychiatry, 64, 46-58
DOI 10.1016/j.comppsych.2015.05.016, PubMed 26104432
Favourable outcome of long-term combined psychotherapy for patients with borderline personality disorder: Six-year follow-up of a randomized study
Psychother Res, 27 (1), 51-63
DOI 10.1080/10503307.2015.1072283, PubMed 26261865
Avoidant personality disorder versus social phobia: the significance of childhood neglect
PLoS One, 10 (3), e0122846
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0122846, PubMed 25815817
Correction: Avoidant Personality Disorder versus Social Phobia: The Significance of Childhood Neglect
PLoS One, 10 (5), e0128737
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0128737, PubMed 25978045
Attachment styles in patients with avoidant personality disorder compared with social phobia
Psychol Psychother, 89 (3), 245-60
DOI 10.1111/papt.12075, PubMed 26332087
Relationship Between Affect Consciousness and Personality Functioning in Patients With Personality Disorders: A Prospective Study
J Pers Disord, 30 (5), 633-652
DOI 10.1521/pedi_2015_29_220, PubMed 26168325
Group Psychotherapy in Norway
Int J Group Psychother, 65 (4), 543-51
DOI 10.1521/ijgp.2015.65.4.543, PubMed 26401797
Personality Disorder and Changes in Affect Consciousness: A 3-Year Follow-Up Study of Patients with Avoidant and Borderline Personality Disorder
PLoS One, 10 (12), e0145625
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0145625, PubMed 26699730
Experiences in Close Relationships – Psychometric properties among patients with personality disorders
Personal Ment Health, 9 (3), 208-19
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1298, PubMed 26033784
Theory of mind in women with borderline personality disorder or schizophrenia: differences in overall ability and error patterns
Front Psychol, 6, 1239
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01239, PubMed 26379577
Publications 2014
Step-down versus outpatient psychotherapeutic treatment for personality disorders: 6-year follow-up of the Ullevål personality project
BMC Psychiatry, 14, 119
DOI 10.1186/1471-244X-14-119, PubMed 24758722
Poor Validity of the DSM-IV Schizoid Personality Disorder Construct as a Diagnostic Category
J Pers Disord, 29 (3), 334-46
DOI 10.1521/pedi_2014_28_159, PubMed 25248009
Changing from a traditional psychodynamic treatment programme to mentalization-based treatment for patients with borderline personality disorder--does it make a difference?
Psychol Psychother, 88 (1), 71-86
DOI 10.1111/papt.12036, PubMed 25045028
Patients with personality disorders in private specialist practice
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 134 (23-24), 2267-72
DOI 10.4045/tidsskr.13.1581, PubMed 25492335
Publications 2013
Development of Group Climate in Short- and Long-Term Psychodynamic Group Psychotherapy
Int. J. Group Psychother., 63 (3), 367-393
Development of group climate in short- and long-term psychodynamic group psychotherapy
Int J Group Psychother, 63 (3), 366-93
DOI 10.1521/ijgp.2013.63.3.366, PubMed 23734920
Personality functioning in patients with avoidant personality disorder and social phobia
J Pers Disord, 27 (6), 746-63
DOI 10.1521/pedi_2013_27_109, PubMed 23786266
Emotional dysfunction in avoidant compared to borderline personality disorder: a study of affect consciousness
Scand J Psychol, 54 (6), 515-21
DOI 10.1111/sjop.12076, PubMed 24107113
Health service costs and clinical gains of psychotherapy for personality disorders: a randomized controlled trial of day-hospital-based step-down treatment versus outpatient treatment at a specialist practice
BMC Psychiatry, 13, 315
DOI 10.1186/1471-244X-13-315, PubMed 24268099
The impact of extended longitudinal observation on the assessment of personality disorders
Personal Ment Health, 7 (4), 277-87
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1234, PubMed 24343977
Publications 2012
Mentalization as a moderator of treatment effects: findings from a randomized clinical trial for personality disorders
Psychother Res, 23 (6), 674-89
DOI 10.1080/10503307.2012.684103, PubMed 22612470
Is treatment in a day hospital step-down program superior to outpatient individual psychotherapy for patients with personality disorders? 36 months follow-up of a randomized clinical trial comparing different treatment modalities
Psychother Res, 22 (4), 426-41
DOI 10.1080/10503307.2012.662608, PubMed 22417131
The MBT Adherence and Competence Scale (MBT-ACS): development, structure and reliability
Psychother Res, 23 (6), 705-17
DOI 10.1080/10503307.2012.708795, PubMed 22916991
Is low affect consciousness related to the severity of psychopathology? A cross-sectional study of patients with avoidant and borderline personality disorder
Compr Psychiatry, 54 (2), 149-57
DOI 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.07.003, PubMed 22998844
Avoidant personality, cluster A traits and Taijin kyofusho: Deconstructing a treatment resistant socially fearful young man: A commentary on a case by Maruta et al.
Personal. Ment. Health, 6 (3), 276-278
DOI 10.1002/pmh.1209
Publications 2011
Change in reflective functioning during psychotherapy--a single-case study
Psychother Res, 21 (1), 97-111
DOI 10.1080/10503307.2010.525759, PubMed 21331977
Publications 2010
Psychotherapy for personality disorders: 18 months' follow-up of the ullevål personality project
J Pers Disord, 24 (2), 188-203
DOI 10.1521/pedi.2010.24.2.188, PubMed 20420475
Sources Accounting for Alliance and Cohesion at Three Stages in Group Psychotherapy: Variance Component Analyses
Group Dyn.-Theory Res. Pract., 14 (4), 368-383
DOI 10.1037/a0019170
Personlighetspsykiatri
Gyldendal akademisk, Oslo, 538 s.
BIBSYS 100699510, ISBN 978-82-05-39210-6
Publications 2009
A cross-national validity study of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems (SIPP-118)
Personal. Ment. Health, 3 (1), 41-55
DOI 10.1002/pmh.60
The impact of avoidant personality disorder on psychosocial impairment is substantial
Nord J Psychiatry, 63 (5), 390-6
DOI 10.1080/08039480902831322, PubMed 19333817
Nineteen-month stability of Revised NEO Personality Inventory domain and facet scores in patients with personality disorders
J Nerv Ment Dis, 197 (3), 187-95
DOI 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181923fa0, PubMed 19282686
Publications 2008
Psychotherapy for personality disorders: short-term day hospital psychotherapy versus outpatient individual therapy - a randomized controlled study
Eur Psychiatry, 24 (2), 71-8
DOI 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2008.09.004, PubMed 19097870
The quality of the DSM-IV obsessive-compulsive personality disorder construct as a prototype category
J Nerv Ment Dis, 196 (6), 446-55
DOI 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181775a4e, PubMed 18552621
Self-esteem in patients with borderline and avoidant personality disorders
Scand J Psychol, 49 (5), 469-77
DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2008.00655.x, PubMed 18564322
A study of patients with personality disorder not otherwise specified
Compr Psychiatry, 49 (5), 460-8
DOI 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.12.008, PubMed 18702931
Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in the Context of an Avoidant Personality Disorder
Personal. Ment. Health, 2 (2), 110-112
DOI 10.1002/pmh.37
Publications 2007
Interviews of female patients with borderline personality disorder who dropped out of group psychotherapy
Int J Group Psychother, 57 (1), 67-91
DOI 10.1521/ijgp.2007.57.1.67, PubMed 17266430
The relationship between avoidant personality disorder and social phobia
Compr Psychiatry, 48 (4), 348-56
DOI 10.1016/j.comppsych.2007.03.004, PubMed 17560956
From general day hospital treatment to specialized treatment programmes
Int Rev Psychiatry, 19 (1), 39-49
DOI 10.1080/09540260601080821, PubMed 17365157
Publications 2006
An investigation of the validity of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition avoidant personality disorder construct as a prototype category and the psychometric properties of the diagnostic criteria
Compr Psychiatry, 47 (5), 376-83
DOI 10.1016/j.comppsych.2006.01.006, PubMed 16905400
Clinical Utility of Dimensional Models for Personality Pathology
DIMENSIONAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY DISORDERS: REFINING THE RESEARCH AGENDA FOR DSM-V, 227-231
Publications 2003
Outpatient group psychotherapy following day treatment for patients with personality disorders
J Pers Disord, 17 (6), 510-21
DOI 10.1521/pedi.17.6.510.25357, PubMed 14744077
Publications 2002
Patients' characteristics, outcome and cost-benefit of hospital-based treatment for patients with personality disorder: a comparison of three different programmes
Psychol Psychother, 75 (Pt 4), 381-92
DOI 10.1348/147608302321151899, PubMed 12674121
[American guidelines for treatment of borderline personality disorder]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 122 (20), 2028-9
PubMed 12555452
[Models for understanding personality pathology]
Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 122 (1), 54-8
PubMed 11851297
Publications 2001
The place of group psychotherapy in the treatment of personality disorders
Curr. Opin. Psychiatr., 14 (2), 125-129
DOI 10.1097/00001504-200103000-00005
Publications 2000
Comparing Personality Diagnostic questionnaire-4+ with Longitudinal, Expert, All Data (LEAD) standard diagnoses in a sample with a high prevalence of axis I and axis II disorders
Compr Psychiatry, 41 (4), 295-302
DOI 10.1053/comp.2000.0410295, PubMed 10929799
Publications 1999
Clinical studies of personality disordered patients treated in a psychotherapeutic day unit, with emphasis on assessment, treatment and course
Department Group of Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Division of Psychiatry, Ullevål Hospital, Oslo, 1 b. (flere pag.)
BIBSYS 000531901, ISBN 82-91049-27-0
One-year follow-up of day treatment for poorly functioning patients with personality disorders
Psychiatr Serv, 50 (10), 1326-30
DOI 10.1176/ps.50.10.1326, PubMed 10506302
Borderline and avoidant personality disorders and the five-factor model of personality: a comparison between DSM-IV diagnoses and NEO-PI-R
J Pers Disord, 13 (3), 226-40
DOI 10.1521/pedi.1999.13.3.226, PubMed 10498036