Personality Disorders
Evidence-Based Reviews
Improving the recognition of borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder is associated with impaired psychosocial functioning,1-4 reduced health-related quality of life,5...
Podcasts
Screening for psychiatric disorders
Mark Zimmerman, MD, discusses the use of questionnaires in screening for psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.
Cases That Test Your Skills
The girl who couldn’t stop stealing
Ms. B, age 14, has diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, and is taking extended-release...
Conference Coverage
Reframe view of borderline personality disorder patients as survivors
WASHINGTON – Consider that patients with borderline personality disorder are wired for threats and can be helped by positive reinforcement, an...
Conference Coverage
PSYCHIATRY UPDATE 2017
SOLVING CLINICAL CHALLENGES, IMPROVING PATIENT CARE
Evidence-Based Reviews
Psychosis in borderline personality disorder: How assessment and treatment differs from a psychotic disorder
Psychotic symptoms in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are common, distressing to patients, and challenging to treat. Issues of...
Podcasts
Psychosis in BPD
Commentary
Personality disorders on the acute care unit
Caring for the patient is integral to the art of doctoring, and yet there are some people for whom this is incredibly hard to do. They frustrate...
Evidence-Based Reviews
‘They’re out to get me!’: Evaluating rational fears and bizarre delusions in paranoia
Even among healthy individuals, feelings of paranoia are not unusual. In modern psychiatry, we consider paranoia to be a pattern of unfounded...
Video
Managing borderline personality disorder
Evidence-Based Reviews
What do >700 letters to a mass murderer tell us about the people who wrote them?
New study suggests management recommendations for patients who are drawn to a violent person