OBJECTIVE The authors sought to evaluate the clinical efficacy of dialectical behavior therapy compared with general psychiatric management, including a combination of psychodynamically informed therapy and symptom-targeted medication management derived from specific recommendations in APA guidelines for borderline personality disorder. METHOD This was a single-blind trial in which 180 patien...

Research connecting Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is growing. The disorders share several overlapping characteristics, neurological deficits, and similar comorbid disorders. Although these disorders are typically sex-specific, the presence of externalizing and internalizing characteristics may link these disorders. These commonalities ...

Nonclinical studies found that dissociative experiences are intimately linked to a trait known as fantasy proneness. We examined the links among dissociative symptoms, fantasy proneness, and impulsivity in psychiatric outpatients. Our sample consisted of 22 patients with schizophrenia, 20 patients with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, and 19 patients with a major depressive disor...

background: there are still many unanswered questions about psychological and social factors that may affect the development and treatment of borderline personality disorder (bpd). religion/spirituality (r/s) is a factor that could influence the lives of people with bpd . objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between religiosity, religious attendance and borderline p...

This article presents two studies examining cross-sectional mediational models between self-report assessments of personality organization, rumination, borderline disorder symptoms and depressive symptoms. The relationship rumination (BPD) depression has been demonstrated by numerous empirical studies. In our research we used Kernberg's theoretical frame organization (PO) where normal pathologi...

Do women suffering from borderline symptomatology differ from women without these symptoms regarding their motives for body modifications?A sample of 289 women with body modifications were questioned about their tattoos, piercings and motives for body modifications as well as about symptoms of borderline personality disorder. Women with borderline symptomatology were compared to women without b...

OBJECTIVE Criminal behavior in bipolar disorder may be related to substance use disorders, personality disorders, or other comorbidities potentially related to impulsivity. We investigated relationships among impulsivity, antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) or borderline personality disorder symptoms, substance use disorder, course of illness, and history of criminal behavior in bipolar diso...

BACKGROUND Patients with major depression and borderline personality disorder are characterised by a distorted perception of other people's intentions. Deficits in mental state decoding are thought to be the underlying cause of this clinical feature. AIMS To examine, using meta-analysis, whether mental state decoding abilities in patients with major depression and borderline personality disor...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of ethyl-eicosapentaenoic acid (E-EPA) and placebo in the treatment of female subjects with borderline personality disorder. METHOD The authors conducted an 8-week, placebo-controlled, double-blind study of E-EPA in 30 female subjects meeting Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines and DSM-IV criteria for borderline personal...