It may be interesting to correlate this with the small body of literature investigating the TCI for prediction of response to CBT for eating disorders and the modulation of TCI parameters by those CBT protocols.

The discussion begins: "To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first randomized controlled trials which, in a sample with MDD, evaluates treatment effects on personality measured by the TCI." The authors may be interested in an early, uncontrolled study with the same goal: [Black KJ, Sheline YI: Personality disorder scores improve with effective pharmacotherapy of depression. J Affect Di...