Table 1.

Descriptive data on the eight comparative RTCs included in the analysis

Primary study	Treatments compared	No of patients	Outcome
Turner (2000) [59]	DBT-o vs. CCT	24	DBT-o > CCT
Linehan et al. (2002) [39]	DBT vs. CVT + 12S	23	No sign diff
Giesen-Bloo et al. (2006) [22]	SFT vs. TFP	88	SFT > TFP
Linehan et al. (2006) [38]	DBT vs. CTBE	101	DBT > CTBE
Clarkin et al. (2007) [16]	TFP vs. DBT vs. SPT	90	No sign diff
Bateman & Fonagy (2009) [10]	MBT vs. SCM	134	MBT > SCM
McMain et al. (2009) [44]	DBT vs. GPM	180	No sign diff
Doering et al. (2010) [18]	TFP vs. Exp	104	TFP > exp

CCT Client-Centered Therapy, according to Carkhuff et al.’s [15] manual

CTBE Community Treatment by Experts (nominated by community mental health leaders as being especially skillful in treating difficult clients; [38])

CVT-12S Comprehensive Validation Therapy (the acceptance/validation part of DBT), in combination with a 12 step Narcotics Anonymous program

DBT Dialectical Behavior Therapy [35]

DBT-o DBT-oriented therapy, a modified form of DBT [59, 60]

Exp Experienced community psychotherapists (mainly psychoanalysts and behavior therapists; [18])

GPM General Psychiatric Management (including psychodynamic therapy according to [24])

MBT Mentalization-Based Treatment [9]

SCM Structural Clinical Management (Bateman, A., Fonagy, P., Bolton, R., & Karas, E: Structured clinical management for borderline personality disorder, unpublished)

SFT Schema-Focused Therapy [4, 66]

SPT Supportive Psychodynamic Therapy [3, 52]

TFP Transference-Focused Psychotherapy [17]