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  1. Twenty years of research on borderline personality disorder: a

    Borderline personality disorder (BPD), a complex and severe psychiatric disorder, has become a topic of considerable interest to current researchers due to its high incidence and severity of consequences. There is a lack of a bibliometric analysis to visualize the history and developmental trends of researches in BPD. We retrieved 7919 relevant ...

  2. A Comprehensive Literature Review of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental illness marked by unpredictable feelings, behaviors, and relationships. Symptoms like emotional instability, impulsivity, and poor social connections are the basis for diagnostic criteria. A noteworthy discovery highlights the clinical overlap between BPD and several psychotic disorders ...

  3. Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): In the Midst of Vulnerability

    Abstract. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by pervasive affective instability, self-image disturbances, impulsivity, marked suicidality, and unstable interpersonal relationships as the core dimensions of psychopathology underlying the disorder. Across a wide range of situations, BPD causes ...

  4. Borderline Personality Disorder: Risk Factors and Early Detection

    Box 1. DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder-modified. Intense fear of abandonment, which subjects frantically try to avoid, be it real or imagined. A tendency to have unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, which alternate between extremes of idealization and devaluation.

  5. Borderline Personality Disorder: Updates in a Postpandemic World

    Progress in understanding borderline personality disorder has unfolded in the last decade, landing in a new COVID-19-influenced world. Borderline personality disorder is now firmly established as a valid diagnosis, distinct from its co-occurring mood, anxiety, trauma-related, and behavioral disorders. Further, it is also understood as a reflection of general personality dysfunction ...

  6. Borderline personality disorder: a comprehensive review of diagnosis

    The term "borderline" was introduced in the psychiatric literature by Stern 1 and Knight 2, to identify a patient group showing a level of functioning situated between neuroses and schizophrenic disorders.This patient group was not well defined. An important progress occurred with Kernberg's introduction of the concept of borderline personality organization 3, 4, marked by the use of ...

  7. Borderline personality disorder

    Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder with a high burden on patients, family members, and health-care systems. The condition was previously regarded as untreatable, but progress in understanding and management has resulted in earlier diagnosis and better treatment outcomes. A coherent syndrome of BPD typically onsets during adolescence (after age 12 years).

  8. Borderline personality disorder: associations with psychiatric

    In one of the largest, most comprehensive studies on borderline personality disorder (BPD) to date, this article places into context associations between this diagnosis and (1) 16 different ...

  9. Borderline personality disorder: Clinical guidelines for treatment

    Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is fundamentally a syndrome composed of symptoms (primarily of emotional dysregulation) and a number of true personality traits (such as inordinate anger, impulsivity, and a tendency to stress-related paranoid ideation). Whereas schizotypal personality disorder, with its cognitive peculiarities (ideas of reference, odd beliefs, eccentric speech), is ...

  10. Developmental predictors of young adult borderline personality disorder

    Research on the precursors of borderline personality disorder (BPD) reveals numerous child and adolescent risk factors, with impulsivity and trauma among the most salient. Yet few prospective longitudinal studies have examined pathways to BPD, particularly with inclusion of multiple risk domains. We examined theory-informed predictors of young-adult BPD (a) diagnosis and (b) dimensional ...

  11. Borderline Personality Disorder

    Borderline Personality Disorder. Borderline personality is a serious psychiatric disorder, with a prevalence of about 4% in the community, but as high as 20% in many clinical psychiatric populations, and significant morbidity. It is difficult to treat (both in the sense of responding poorly and as personally troubling to the therapist and the ...

  12. (PDF) Borderline personality disorder

    disorder*. Borderline personality disorder is defined as a perv asive pattern. of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-i mage and. affects, and marked impulsivity beginning by early ...

  13. The Lifetime Course of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Abstract. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has historically been seen as a lifelong, highly disabling disorder. Research during the past 2 decades has challenged this assumption. This paper reviews the course of BPD throughout life, including childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. BPD can be accurately identified in adolescence, and the ...

  14. Borderline personality disorder: part 1

    It was expected that the classification of personality disorders would undergo significant change during the revision process leading to DSM-5 to reflect the growing number of studies supporting a dimensional approach to diagnosis (Zachar Reference Zachar, Krueger and Kendler 2016).To this end, a hybrid model of classification of personality disorder for DSM-5 containing categorical and ...

  15. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment

    Personality Disorders: Theory, ... For case control designs (e.g., borderline PD vs. healthy groups), our strong preference will be that a third group be included (e.g., major depressive disorder) so as to speak to the specificity of the findings. Submissions must also note whether attempts were made to screen for data validity (e.g., with self ...

  16. Full article: How people diagnosed with borderline personality disorder

    From a professional perspective, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental health disorder affecting 0,7-1,8% of the general population (Swartz et al., Citation 1990; Torgersen et al., Citation 2001).The criteria for the diagnosis are a pervasive pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image and affect and marked impulsivity beginning in early adulthood and ...

  17. Research on borderline personality disorder: an update

    Purpose of review We will summarize the recent literature on borderline personality disorder, a disorder that receives a great deal of clinical and research attention. Recent findings Borderline personality disorder can be diagnosed reliably, and is quite prevalent in clinical and in non-clinical settings. Borderline personality disorder is co-morbid with a number of conditions, and recent ...

  18. PDF Borderline personality disorder

    klaus.lieb@unimedizin-mainz. de. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental disorder with a high burden on patients, family members, and health-care systems. The condition was previously regarded as untreatable, but progress in understanding and management has resulted in earlier diagnosis and better treatment outcomes.

  19. Improving Research Practice for Studying Borderline Personality

    Borderline personality disorder is an often misunderstood and underdiagnosed mental illness characterized in part by affective lability. Clinicians' unique understanding of the disorder has allowed them to develop disorder-specific approaches to treatment. In this review, we highlight how borderline personality disorder research can benefit ...

  20. Borderline Personality Disorder

    The term 'Borderline Personality Disorder' (BPD) refers to a psychiatric syndrome that is characterized by emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, risk-taking behavior, irritability, feelings of emptiness, self-injury and fear of abandonment, as well as unstable interpersonal relationships. BPD is not only common in psychiatric populations but ...

  21. Crisis interventions for adults with borderline personality disorder

    Background: People diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) frequently present to healthcare services in crisis, often with suicidal thoughts or actions. Despite this, little is known about what constitutes effective management of acute crises in this population and what type of interventions are helpful at times of crisis.

  22. Emotional Processes in Borderline Personality Disorder: An Update for

    Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe mental health condition characterized by emotional instability, impulsive and self-damaging behaviors, and stormy interpersonal relationships (American Psychiatric Association, 2013).This disorder heavily taxes the mental health care system (Bagge, Stepp, & Trull, 2005; Comtois et al., 2003) and results in high personal, economic, and societal ...

  23. Effective management of patients with borderline personality disorder

    Objective: The study aimed to highlight principles of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) that can provide a framework in the management of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and outline some guiding principles in the effective management of these patients on a busy acute inpatient ward. Conclusions: The inpatient environment is often a place where invalidating experiences can ...

  24. 4 Borderline personality disorder WHY FAST AND FURIOUS 23jul2018 1 .pdf

    BPD is often a comorbid condition of other psy-chiatric disorders (formerly conceptualized as axis-I disorders according to DSM-IV), foremost depres-sion, other personality disorders, and there seems to be syndromal overlap and/or comorbidity with bipo-lar disorder (BD), attention deficit/hyperactivity dis-order (ADHD) and posttraumatic stress ...

  25. Borderline personality disorder

    Abstract. BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER is a chronic psychiatric disorder characterized by marked impulsivity, instability of mood and interpersonal relationships, and suicidal behaviour that can complicate medical care. Identifying this diagnosis is important for treatment planning. Although the cause of borderline personality disorder is ...

  26. Narcissistic personality disorder

    Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings. Narcissistic personality disorder is one of the sub-types of the broader category known as personality disorders.

  27. Psychology Essay Topics: 165 Compelling Ideas

    Psychology Essay Topics About Mental Disorders Mental disorders and the science of the mind are intertwined as psychology seeks to understand, diagnose, and treat a wide range of conditions affecting thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Mental illness stigma. Schizophrenia. Depression and anxiety link. Addiction's neural basis. PTSD in veterans.

  28. Personality disorder traits are associated with greater loneliness

    R ecent developments in mental health research have highlighted the role of social factors in the lives of individuals with personality disorder diagnoses or traits. A growing body of literature ...

  29. 500 Mental Health Argumentative Essay Topics & Ideas

    Addressing mental health issues through argumentative essays allows for a deeper exploration of the complexities involved, fostering greater understanding and advocacy. ... Borderline Personality Disorder of The Protagonist in 'Good Will Hunting' Movie; Shutter Island: Psychology and Dissociative Identity Disorder;