Borderline Personality News

June 29, 2007

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Panel: Suspend judge
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Mason Municipal Court Judge George Parker should be suspended for one year, according to the Ohio Supreme Court's disciplinary panel. He also could face six more months of suspension if he fails to continue psychotherapy for his narcissistic personality disorder.

Addict died after drug 'cocktail'
wigantoday.net
A mother-of-three from Hindley Green died sitting cross-legged on the floor at her friend's home, after taking a "cocktail" of diazepam, alcohol, and the heroin substitute methadone.

Serial and Mass Killers as Familiar Figures
BellaOnline
Are most serial killers pathological narcissists? Is there a strong connection? Is the pathological narcissist more at risk of becoming a serial killer than a person not suffering from the disorder?

Gene Variant Increases Risk For Alcoholism Following Childhood Abuse
Science Daily
Girls who suffered childhood sexual abuse are more likely to develop alcoholism later in life if they possess a particular variant of a gene involved in the body's response to stress, according to a new study. The new finding could help explain why some individuals are more resilient to profound childhood trauma than others.

Fulton judge declines to delay execution
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fulton County Judge Stephanie Manis ruled Monday that the execution of a triple murderer can proceed. Attorneys for John Hightower filed a last-minute appeal to Manis to postpone Hightower's execution, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Hightower's attorney Jack Martin argued that lethal injection is unconstitutional. Martin also argued that recent changes made in lethal injection procedures made by ...

Tube Killer Had Warned His Doctors
RedNova
A MENTAL patient pushed a commuter to his death under a train just two weeks after telling doctors he would do exactly that, a court heard yesterday. Mental health bosses nevertheless decided to allow Mehmet Bala, 20, out of hospital for two or three hours a day.

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 ...

Kashmir an exception
Greater Kashmir
Srinagar, June 23: The World Health Organization (WHO) statistics for 2005 shows the rate of suicides in Muslim world is 0.1 to 0.2 per 100,000. The low rate of suicides is attributed to strong religious beliefs in these societies.

Excessive jealousy led to fire-bomb murder
Stuff
A woman whose obsessive jealousy drove her to commit murder has been jailed for life for her part in a molotov cocktail attack that killed the wrong woman.

Assessing Suicide Risk in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychiatric Times
Patients with borderline personality disorder are at a much higher risk for suicide attempts than patients with almost any other mental illness. Here, a case report and examples are presented to help clinicians assess, diagnose and treat patients with BPD who have attempted or are threatening suicide.

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