Personality Disorders
Cases That Test Your Skills
Bipolar disorder or something else?
Ms. S, age 31, is found intoxicated with empty pill bottles in her purse. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at age 12, but has no history of...
Podcasts
Working with other disciplines
Hamid R. Tavakoli, MD, talks about how to clarify discussions of altered mental status with clinicians from other disciplines.
Cases That Test Your Skills
Stalked by a ‘patient’
For 20 months, Ms. I has been calling and sending threatening letters to a psychiatric resident whom she falsely believes is her physician. How...
Med/Psych Update
Psychotropic-induced dry mouth: Don’t overlook this potentially serious side effect
Routine screening, education can help patients avoid substantial sequelae
Podcasts
How proposed changes to personality disorders in DSM-5 will affect researchers
Mark Zimmerman, MD; and Donald W. Black, MD
Evidence-Based Reviews
Redefining personality disorders: Proposed revisions for DSM-5
Latest proposal would change disorders into types, eliminate 4 disorders
Commentary
A complex subject
Podcasts
Strategies for improving pharmacotherapy for patients with BPD
Katherine Nelson, MD
Evidence-Based Reviews
Pharmacologic treatment of borderline personality disorder
Evidence suggests symptom-targeted pharmacotherapy can be beneficial
Commentary
Dissociative identity disorder: No excuse for criminal activity
Using multiple personalities as the basis of an insanity defense rarely is successful
Podcasts
Teaching suicidal adolescents how to "walk the middle path"
Nicholas L. Salsman, PhD