Borderline Personality News

June 15, 2007

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Making connections for life
phillyburbs.com
Volunteers become friends with those dealing with mental illness.

Missouri high court upholds higher burden on sexual predators
Daily Journal
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? The state Supreme Court has upheld a 2004 law imposing a heavier burden on sexual predators seeking their release from civil confinement.

Nurse stabbed by fantasist, court told
Guardian Unlimited
A teenage fantasist obsessed with serial killers stabbed a nurse more than 70 times after rehearsing the murder, court hears.

Woman shot by police ?had a history of mental illness?
Times Online
The woman who was shot dead by police in Sevenoaks, Kent, on Monday had a history of mental illness, friends said yesterday. Ann Sanderson, 37, was traumatised as a child when her mother died of cancer, and later developed a personality disorder, according to residents near her childhood home.

Prosecutors want to commit child molester under new law
7 News Boston
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Prosecutors want to commit a child molester to a locked psychiatric unit when he leaves state prison next month.

Raped woman sues Bellingham, says police made her walk home
The Columbian
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -- A woman who said she was raped after being pulled over in a traffic stop and forced to walk home two miles in near-freezing weather is suing the police force and two officers.

Only woman on Virgina death row loses in Supreme Court
Danville Register & Bee
RICHMOND (AP) - The only woman on Virginia?s death row failed to convince the state's highest court that her trial lawyer violated her constitutional rights by failing to present evidence that could have spared her the death penalty.

Case sparks call for fake rape register
The New Zealand Herald
The lawyer defending a woman accused of laying a bogus rape complaint wants a national register kept of anyone who repeatedly makes false allegations to police.

Renowned Team of Social Workers and Psychologists Moves Established Therapy Program to Private Practice
U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News
Six clinical social workers and psychologists who have operated one of the largest and most successful outpatient therapy programs since 1999 now open CCDBT -- The Center for Cognitive and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. CCDBT offers Cognitive- Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for adolescents, adults and children, as well as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) for adolescents and adults.

The antisocial personality
High Plains Journal
Individuals who show little or no empathy for others, and who continually disregard and violate the rights of others have what is described in the mental health field as an antisocial personality disorder. These individuals tend to be very impulsive with their actions and repeatedly lie.

Raped woman sues Bellingham Police
KING 5 Seattle
A woman who said she was raped after being pulled over in a traffic stop and forced to walk home two miles in near-freezing weather is suing the police force and two officers.

Embezzler of $6.9 million draws 4 years
The Providence Journal
BOSTON ? She stood before a federal judge yesterday with the plain, unassuming look of a middle-aged woman who worked a 9-to-5 job, raised a family, and wouldn?t dare break the law.

Borderline Personality Disorder Shows Improvements With Intensive Psychotherapy
Science Daily
An intensive form of talk therapy, known as transference-focused psychotherapy, can help individuals affected with borderline personality disorder by reducing symptoms and improving their social functioning, according to a recent article.

Child abuse: A cause of borderline personality disorder?
Mayo Clinic
Traumatic events in childhood ? such as physical or sexual abuse ? increase the risk of borderline personality disorder and other personality disorders. But the exact cause of borderline personality disorder isn't known.

Blake Fleetwood: Paris Hilton Should Not Be In Jail
HuffingtonPost
As much as we all delight in the ignominy of the beautiful and wealthy Paris Hilton sitting in a jail cell like a common criminal, this is bad public policy and it costs us all. All people should be treated...

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