What are the treatments for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?

What are the treatments for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?

Rhoda Hahn (Psychiatrist) gives expert video advice on: What is "obsessive-compulsive personality disorder"?; Who is at risk for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?; What are the treatments for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder? and more...

People with OCPD tend to become depressed particularly when things get difficult. So if OCPD sufferers meet criteria for mood or anxiety disorders, they should definitely be treated in a standard fashion. Other than that, I think it's inside-orientated psychotherapy (a way of letting them see that it's actually their behaviour that's leading to some of the problems that they're having in their life) and trying to get the OCPD sufferer to open up a little more emotionally, perhaps be less rigid and inflexible.