Personality Disorders
Conference Coverage
Docs can help combat TikTok misinformation on rare psychiatric disorder
While social media allows for instant communication, there are mounting concerns about the spread of misinformation and its potential impact on...
Commentary
Choosing our terms: The diagnostic words we use can be harmful
Can psychiatry find better terms to communicate hard to hear information, with words that are less problematic?
Shrink Rap News
The newest form of mommy shaming: The 'narcissistic mother'
While we have decided what parents owe our children, it is unclear what parents might ask in return.
From the Journals
Predicting BPD vs. bipolar treatment response: New imaging data
“This study can help clinicians with clinical prediction of treatment efficacy between BD and BPD and clarify the neural mechanism of treatment,”...
Commentary
Cultivating strength: Psychological well-being after nonfatal suicide attempts
People desire lives that they enjoy and find meaningful, and having a history of suicide attempts does not preclude the prospect of such a life....
From the Journals
Anxiety sensitivity fuels depression in dissociative identity disorder
Patients’ fear of cognitive anxiety symptoms contributes to dissociation through depression.
From the Journals
Borderline patients have longer time to depression remission
Severity of BPD symptoms could be an indicator of more severe depression.
Hard Talk
The anecdote as antidote: Psychiatric paradigms in Disney films
Movies, by design, are particularly adept at encapsulating the narrative of someone’s life in a way that psychiatry can learn from.
From the Journals
Higher rates of PTSD, BPD in transgender vs. cisgender psych patients
“It is important to realize that transgender or gender-diverse identity is not synonymous with [borderline personality disorder], as some have...
From the Journals
Borderline personality disorder raises relapse risk for MDD patients after ECT
Better BPD screening may improve outcomes for depressed patients undergoing electroconvulsive therapy.
From the Editor
From neuroplasticity to psychoplasticity: Psilocybin may reverse personality disorders and political fanaticism
One of psychiatry’s long-standing dogmas is that personality disorders are enduring, unchangeable, and not amenable to treatment with potent...