Borderline Personality News

June 1, 2007

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Marsha Linehan: Dialectic Behavioral Therapy
Psychiatric Times
For her work in establishing the Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) model for use with chronically suicidal individuals suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD), Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., is this year's recipient of the annual research award given by the New York City-based American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP). Linehan is professor of psychology and adjunct professor of ...

Dr Thomas Stuttaford answers your questions on depression and therapy
Times Online
NEXT ONLINE CONSULTATION: the doctor is away on June 6. His new topic for answer online on Wednesday, June 13, will be announced shortly. For how to e-mail your question for answer online and to read other recent topics click here . See also extracts from Black Dog.

Man sentenced to life for killing N.C. mother, 8-month-old
The Daily Comet
In a decision that his attorney described as a "miracle verdict," a man convicted of killing an 8-month-old baby and the child's mother was sentenced to two life sentences and not the death penalty.

Differentiating Chronic Depression From Personality Disorders
Psychiatric Times
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Character trait or personality disorder?
High Plains Journal
Sometimes people are described as being difficult, stubborn, rigid, obsessive, anti-social, or paranoid. But are those character traits, or a personality disorder?

Man convicted of killing Greensboro woman and her baby
FOX Carolina
Associated Press - May 24, 2007 6:35 PM ET GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Jurors are expected to begin deliberating tomorrow on a sentence for a man they found guilty of killing a woman and her...

Anakin Skywalker: Borderline Personality, Bipolar or Narcissist?
Wired News
Psychologists try to diagnose the demons that drive Darth Vader, the ultimate villain of the Star Wars universe.

Man convicted of killing Greensboro woman and her baby
The Daily Comet
A sentencing hearing for a man defense attorneys argue is mentally ill was expected to continue Thursday, a day after he was found guilty of killing a woman and her baby.

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