The DTC operated by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust serves people with borderline personality disorder across Greater Manchester and Derbyshire. Comprises a 6-session introduction group, 12 months of weekly group therapy, and voluntary peer support upon completion.
Best for
NHS patients in Greater Manchester with BPD seeking a structured, year-long democratic therapeutic community programme.
Modalities
Depth elements
Recreates a network of close relationships modeled on a family, within which deeply ingrained behavioral patterns, negative cognitions, and adverse emotions can be re-learned. Rooted in psychodynamic and attachment theory. Uses the therapeutic community as the primary instrument of change — understanding personality disorder as fundamentally a disorder of relationships healable only within relationships.