Borderline Personality News
March 14, 2008
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Borderline Personality Disorder: Splitting Countertransference
Psychiatric Times
A popular slang definition of the verb to split is "to depart," or "to
leave." In this context, to split describes the occasional wish of a
psychiatrist who may be mired in the chaos created by the behavior of a
patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
Category 1 CME Credit
Psychiatric Times
Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Efficacy, Mechanisms, and Application
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was developed as a treatment for
individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD), particularly
those who deliberately harm themselves physically or who often think
about and/or attempt suicide.
Borderline Personality Disorder: An Overview
Psychiatric Times
Although the term borderline has been in clinical use since the late
1930s, it only became an official Axis II diagnosis in 1980 with the
publication of DSM-III . Currently, DSM-IV-TR emphasizes that patients
with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show a "instability of
interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked
impulsivity beginning by early adulthood and present in a ...
Psychopathy and Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Case of Diagnostic
Confusion
Psychiatric Times
A Secret Service agent recently asked if I was familiar with a 1992 FBI
report that almost half of the killers of law enforcement officers met
the criteria for antisocial personality . I replied that I had not seen
the report but that the finding did not seem surprising or noteworthy to
me.
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Patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder 'Switches' in the Emergency
Room
Psychiatric Times
Dissociative identity disorder (DID), known as multiple personality
disorder until renamed in the DSM-IV (American Psychiatric Association,
1994), is a controversial diagnosis.
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