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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.

A 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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