Personality Disorders
Pearls
Strategies for working with patients with personality disorders
Patients with personality disorders can disrupt the treatment relationship, and may leave us feeling angry, ineffective, inadequate, and defeated...
Conference Coverage
Goldwater Rule should be modified, debate audience at The College agrees
TAMPA, FLA. – Should concerned psychiatrists remain silent?
Commentary
The stigma toward BPD
In response to Dr. Mark Zimmerman’s article, “Improving the recognition of borderline personality disorder,” I think the topic of improving the...
Conference Coverage
Inhaled loxapine quells agitation in personality disorders
Small pilot study suggests that most patients treated with a single 10-mg dose experience a significant drop on the Excited Component of the PANSS...
Commentary
Personality disorders and the court system
As forensic psychiatrists, one of our main roles is to apply the Dusky standard to assess competency. In this regard, multiple times a week, we...
Evidence-Based Reviews
Improving the recognition of borderline personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder is associated with impaired psychosocial functioning,1-4 reduced health-related quality of life,5...
Podcasts
Screening for psychiatric disorders
Mark Zimmerman, MD, discusses the use of questionnaires in screening for psychiatric disorders in clinical practice.
Cases That Test Your Skills
The girl who couldn’t stop stealing
Ms. B, age 14, has diagnoses of attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, and is taking extended-release...
Conference Coverage
Reframe view of borderline personality disorder patients as survivors
WASHINGTON – Consider that patients with borderline personality disorder are wired for threats and can be helped by positive reinforcement, an...
Conference Coverage
PSYCHIATRY UPDATE 2017
SOLVING CLINICAL CHALLENGES, IMPROVING PATIENT CARE
Evidence-Based Reviews
Psychosis in borderline personality disorder: How assessment and treatment differs from a psychotic disorder
Psychotic symptoms in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are common, distressing to patients, and challenging to treat. Issues of...