Borderline Personality News

June 15, 2007

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Nurse-killer admits to gun rampage fantasies
Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
A teenager who admits stabbing a nurse to death in a frenzied attack last year told a court on Wednesday he had rape fantasies and had wanted to carry out a gun rampage at a school where he had been bullied.

Iraq veterans need adequate psychiatric care
The Daily Iowan
Jeans Cruz, a former Army scout who helped capture Saddam Hussein, lives in a bullet-riddled Bronx housing project, addled by nightmares about Iraq, voices in his head, and the smell of dried blood in his nostrils. As Post reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull recently described his situation, Cruz began cutting his arms and extinguishing cigarettes on his skin after returning home from Iraq.

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 ...

Mental healing is hard to find
Arizona Daily Sun
Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped capture Saddam Hussein. When he came home to the Bronx, important people called him a war hero and promised to help him start a new life. The mayor of New York, officials of his parents' home town in Puerto Rico, the borough president and other local dignitaries honored him with plaques and silk parade sashes. They handed him their business cards and urged him to ...

El Paso's unruly streets need me to call shots
El Paso Times
The only reason I hate driving is that I have to share the road with bad drivers. I'm regularly a mellow guy, but put me behind the wheel and I am tense, unforgiving and judgmental. To this some might say, "Severe personality disorder." I say, "Career opportunity."

Psychiatrist: Wall Street executive knew what he was doing when he stabbed girlfriend
CourtTV via Yahoo! News
NANTUCKET, Mass. (Co urt TV) - A forensic psychiatrist testified Friday that a former Wall Street executive was not suffering from mental illness when he stabbed his girlfriend to death days after she broke up with him.

Man Ordered Not To Date For 3 Years
CBS News
A judge has ruled that a 24-year-old Canadian man is not allowed to have a girlfriend for the next three years. The ruling came after Steven Cranley pleaded guilty to several charges stemming from an assault on a former girlfriend.

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