Miloš Židanik
Health centre Maribor
Sodna ulica 13
2000 Maribor

Abstract: Background. Persons with axious personality disorder are tense and worried, they express uncertainty and lack of self-confidence with restraint in their social life, especially in close and intimate relationships. They desire the warmth and security of human companionship, but avoid forming relationships by their alleged fear of rejection and criticism. They are more vulnerable to stressful events and are prone to depression, anxiety and social phobia. Because of their personality features they have difficulties in forming a close relationship with the therapist. In this article I present a psychotherapeutic process with a patient with anxious personality disorder.

Conclusions. The features of anxious personality disorder reflect also in the therapy setting – there is a possibility of  sudden therapy breakout without warning. So, the transference analysis is the key feature of the therapy. If the patient stays in the relationship with the therapists, he can get important experiences in the field of forming companionships that he can use in average situations. Regarding this, psychoanalytic psychotherapy may stay the treatment of choice for some patients with the anxious personality disorder in spite of the recommendations from the literature, that are preferring more supportive techniques.