It is refreshing to read a generally positive and optimistic editorial about borderline personality disorder and its long-term prognosis (Fonagy & Bateman, 2006). It is also reassuring to find the authors speculating about an issue long recognised by users of personality disorder services, that is, the ‘reality of iatrogenic harm’. We feel, however, that there is a worrying element to this piec...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the utilization of mental health treatments over a three-year period among patients with schizotypal, borderline, avoidant, or obsessive-compulsive personality disorders compared with patients with major depressive disorder and no personality disorder. METHODS A prospective, longitudinal study design was used to measure treatment use for 633 individuals aged 18 t...

The aim of this study was to determine the potential relationship among borderline personality disorder traits, specific aspects of narcissism, and different elements of eating pathology. Fifty-two nonclinical female participants completed standardized measures of narcissism, borderline personality disorder traits, and eating pathology. Data were analyzed using correlations. Specific associatio...

(2002). Co-occurrence of DSM-IV personality disorders with borderline personality disorder.

Personality disorders affect up to 50% of psychiatric out-patients. Most treatment studies have been performed in patients with borderline personality disorder. Structured psychosocial interventions for people with borderline personality disorders appear to have similar efficacy. There is some evidence that non-structured, non-specialised treatments offered by psychiatric general services might...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to examine the factor structure of the DSM-III-R criteria for borderline personality disorder in young adult psychiatric inpatients. METHOD The authors assessed 141 acutely ill inpatients with the Personality Disorder Examination, a semistructured diagnostic interview for DSM-III-R personality disorders. They used correlational analyses to examine the asso...

background : the aim of this study was to compare the difficulty in emotional regulation and traits of borderline personality disorder among addicts undergoing methadone treatment, self-referred addicts, and healthy subjects. methods: the current study was a causal-comparative research. the statistical population of this research included all men referring to substance abuse addiction treatment...

a r t i c l e i n f o Two studies were conducted to test whether psychopathy, narcissism, and borderline personality are linked to impairment in affective empathy experience. In both studies, two forms of affective empathy (emotional contagion and empathic concern) were covertly manipulated and measured. Use of state empathy change scores and data aggregation across both studies and a third pre...