[Trauma-focused treatments in people with personality disorders: comments on the evidence and on often-heard claims].

Short-term treatments, including trauma-focused treatments, can achieve important positive outcomes in people with personality disorder in the short term. Perhaps the active mechanisms behind trauma-focused treatment are not fundamentally different from the working mechanisms behind personality disorder treatment. In this regard, one of the most important aspects is that people can actively relate to their history. Also, as professionals, we must be careful not to paint clients too rosy a picture of the possible outcomes of brief treatments.