Personality Disorders
Evidence-Based Reviews
Redefining personality disorders: Proposed revisions for DSM-5
Latest proposal would change disorders into types, eliminate 4 disorders
Commentary
A complex subject
Podcasts
Strategies for improving pharmacotherapy for patients with BPD
Katherine Nelson, MD
Evidence-Based Reviews
Pharmacologic treatment of borderline personality disorder
Evidence suggests symptom-targeted pharmacotherapy can be beneficial
Commentary
Dissociative identity disorder: No excuse for criminal activity
Using multiple personalities as the basis of an insanity defense rarely is successful
Podcasts
Teaching suicidal adolescents how to "walk the middle path"
Nicholas L. Salsman, PhD
Pearls
Possession obsession: Help hoarders escape their own prisons
Hoarding often is ego-syntonic, and many patients do not believe their behaviors are problematic despite the risks
Commentary
Question BPD outcomes
Commentary
Hallucinogen sequelae
Cases That Test Your Skills
The manipulative self-harmer
Involuntarily admitted to a forensic unit, Ms. L often tests the staff by hurting herself and making suicidal gestures. Which treatments would you...
Podcasts
Borderline or bipolar? Don't skimp on the life story
Jess G. Fiedorowicz, MD