Personality Disorders

What do the United States and borderline personality disorder have in common?

How can we effectively identify hoarding disorder, the various treatment options, and the research that informs these interventions?

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.

In this CME, the link between personality disorders and violence is explored. Much still remains to be learned about the factors that mediate the link.

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?

Selfhood: a complex and continuously evolving identity that is anchored in the patient's history and dependent on language and memory. But there is so much more.

Fire setting is the current preferred term in the literature to describe acts of deliberately started fires regardless of their legal or diagnostic status.

Lack of empathy is a commonly known feature of narcissistic personality disorder. Relationships are typically shallow and difficult to maintain. What are some other features of NPD? More in this case presentation.

The image of the psychopath is that of a cold, heartless, inhuman being. But do all psychopaths show a complete lack of normal emotional capacities and empathy?

The country has erupted into a wave of anger that demands justice and reform; but what can we, psychiatrists, do when we hear “code black”?

This article explores why Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE) is a clinically useful diagnosis.

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

Which medical condition-characterized by the rapid onset of delirium, mania, and psychosis-is linked with bipolar disorder? Take the 5-question 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.

On the risk of accepting the practice of psychiatric diagnosis from afar.

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

What is the clinical approach to pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder?

Proper technique, practiced over time, can transform an appointment from "medication management" to a serious change in behavior, as evidenced by the 5 examples featured in this article.

What are the benefits of traditional psychoanalytic concepts and new discoveries of mentalization-based treatment?

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