Borderline Personality News

June 8, 2007

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Psychotherapy helps borderline personality
EARTHtimes.org
Transference-focused psychotherapy, an intensive form of talk therapy, can help people affected with borderline personality disorder, says a U.S. study.

Borderline Personality Disorder Shows Improvements with Intensive Psychotherapy
Newswise
An intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP), can help individuals affected with borderline personality disorder (BPD) by reducing symptoms and improving their social functioning, according to an article in the June issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, a premier psychiatry journal.

Ex-deputy set to die for flower shop slaying 1:32 PM CDT=
Dallas Morning News
HUNTSVILLE - Michael Griffith is about to pay with his life for violating the law he once swore to uphold. The former Harris County sheriff's deputy is set for execution Wednesday for the 1994 rape, robbery and stabbing death of a Houston woman at her family's flower shop.

Death sentence upheld for Oakland's I-580 killer / High court rejects claim of racial bias in jury selection
San Francisco Chronicle
The state Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Monday of a killer who roamed Interstate 580 in Oakland for nearly four months in 1989, shooting four people to death and firing at 10 others before he was caught staring at the murder scene of his final...

Swiss Re director-explosive disorder
Times Online
The poet Horace once wrote that anger is ?a short madness?. It is impossible for most people to imagine what kind of madness would lead someone to suddenly snap and attack a child with such ferocity that it is left on a life-support machine.

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