Borderline Personality

How can consultation-liaison psychiatry help identify BPD and facilitate effective communication between patients and medical teams during these patients’ admissions?

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In this CME article, examine the etiology of poor medical outcomes in borderline personality disorder and learn more about the assessment and management of patients with reported borderline personality disorder who have been admitted medically.

Given the paradoxical nature of borderline personality disorder, double bind communication appears to be a common method of engagement which ultimately serves only self-defeating purposes.

From a look at adolescent substance use to special challenges in treating borderline personality disorder during the perinatal period, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

How can BPD traits affect the transition to parenthood?

PME affects many women, yet it remains under-recognized in clinical practice and in research.

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Mothers with borderline personality disorder often have experienced early-life trauma. How can you help?

Borderline personality disorder is a common diagnosis among young women that is highly understudied in pregnancy and motherhood. Learn more here.

Sleep disturbances in borderline personality disorder are relatively unrecognized.

These 3 essential steps best support patients with borderline personality disorder, according to Carl Fleisher, MD.

A patient presents with multiple substance use disorders super-imposed on mood and anxiety disorders. Where does a clinician even begin?

What do functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging findings reveal about the neurobiology of borderline personality disorder? Take the quiz and learn more.

Do personality disorders get a bad rap? Take the quiz and learn more.

While treatment of bipolar disorder challenging , the notion that it is treatment resistant is contradicted by longitudinal and treatment research that indicates high rates of remission over time, moderate rates of recovery, and significant response to structured treatments tailored to symptoms.

The authors describe an alternative model for BPD diagnosis that is dimensional in nature and requires fulfillment of 4 of 7 personality traits.

The Prisoner’s Dilemma reveals a clear distinction between the 2 conditions.

Here's what's new in personality disorders: DBT treatment, DSM-5 criteria, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personalities, and mentalization-based treatments.

There is more to BPD than meets the eye. A complex interaction exists between environmental, anatomical, functional, genetic, and epigenetic factors.

MBT presents a compromise to bridge the valuable history of psychoanalytic ideas to both modern psychiatric research as well as present public health needs and practice.

An exploration topics that are relevant to most clinicians who work with patients with personality disorders.

Patients with borderline personality disorder or narcissistic personality disorder (or both) can feel entitled to special treatment and often seek only approving forms of attention from those who treat them.

Borderline personality disorder typically coexists with depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Symptoms of these conditions may lead the clinician to miss the diagnosis of personality disorder entirely. Careful diagnosis of BPD and comorbid disorders is the first step.

Are patients with borderline personality disorder at a significantly increased risk for suicide when in the angry victim state? This question and more in this quiz.

A study of veterans at risk for suicide showed that single attempters did not differ from multiple attempters on any variable except a history of childhood physical abuse.

Neural underpinnings and symptom presentation in borderline personality disorder might explain similarities and differences in this symptom domain across the spectrum of personality disorders as well as in other disorders associated with impulsive symptoms.

BPD appears to be a neurodevelopmental disorder, influenced by the person’s genetics and brain development and shaped by early environment, including attachment and traumatic experiences.

Staying empathic and keeping the conflict within the patient instead of between the patient and health care provider, is a key to successful management.

Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope is one in a series being published by Johns Hopkins University Press on major psychiatric disorders.