Personality Disorders
Podcasts
Psychosis in BPD
Commentary
Personality disorders on the acute care unit
Caring for the patient is integral to the art of doctoring, and yet there are some people for whom this is incredibly hard to do. They frustrate...
Evidence-Based Reviews
‘They’re out to get me!’: Evaluating rational fears and bizarre delusions in paranoia
Even among healthy individuals, feelings of paranoia are not unusual. In modern psychiatry, we consider paranoia to be a pattern of unfounded...
Video
Managing borderline personality disorder
Evidence-Based Reviews
What do >700 letters to a mass murderer tell us about the people who wrote them?
New study suggests management recommendations for patients who are drawn to a violent person
Video
‘Acting out’ or pathological?
Jon E. Grant, JD, MD, MPH, talks about how to distinguish “acting out” from an impulse-control disorder.
Evidence-Based Reviews
Choosing a treatment for disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders
Limited evidence, no approved drugs to guide treatment
Commentary
BPD and the broader landscape of neuropsychiatric illness
Cases That Test Your Skills
Deaf and self-signing
Deaf since birth, Mrs. H, age 47, is withdrawn and says she is 18 months pregnant. She signs to herself; an interpreter says she uses...