Borderline Personality Disorder Related Content

Joan Wheelis MD, is a senior consultant at the Gunderson Residence and the Gunderson Outpatient Program. An assistant professor of psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the combined MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, she is a training and...

Mary C. Zanarini, EdD, began her career studying the phenomenology and etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD), finding that it is a valid psychiatric disorder that has a clear-cut clinical presentation, can be delimited from other near-neighbor disorders, runs in families, and has a...

D. Bradford Reich, MD, has been an attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital since 1990. Working as an inpatient attending from 1990-2007, he had positions in the psychotic disorders and dissociative disorders and trauma programs. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as an attending psychiatrist at the...

Munya Hayek, MD, is triple board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and pediatrics. She is the associate medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and serves as associate program director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent...

Anna Precht, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a senior clinical consultant at McLean’s Arlington School. She has extensive experience treating adults and adolescents using DBT in individual, group, and milieu modalities. Previously at McLean, she worked closely with colleagues to develop and...

George W. Smith, LICSW, graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 1976 and has spent his entire career at McLean. He did 14 years of inpatient work, primarily focused on family therapy. In 1990, he became the program director of McLean’s first residential program for personality...

Julia Lustick, MD is a staff psychiatrist on the Short Term Unit and in the Gunderson Outpatient Program for patients with borderline personality disorder and other severe personality disorders. Dr. Lustick is psychodynamically oriented and works with individuals, couples, groups, and families. She...

Jodie O’Malley, LICSW, is a senior clinical team manager and individual and group psychotherapist at McLean Hospital. Drawing from over two decades of experience, Ms. O’Malley utilizes evidenced-based psychotherapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy...

Brian W. Boyle, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital’s Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program, where he cares for patients with treatment-resistant depression using ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He is interested in the treatment of patients who struggle with both mood and...

Jason G. Jones, MD, is a psychiatrist at the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Clinical Evaluation Center at McLean Hospital. He specializes in psychodynamic individual and family therapy with patients with personality disorders. He is a graduate of Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s...

Leila Guller, PhD, is a therapist at the 3East Residential Programs. Dr. Guller’s clinical work is primarily with young people struggling with borderline personality disorder and risky behaviors. Her research background is in adolescent addictive behaviors. Dr. Guller completed her graduate training...

Elizabeth A. Bailey, PsyD, is a staff psychologist at McLean’s Child and Adolescent OCD Institute. She specializes in the use of evidence-based treatments, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), to treat a variety of clinical presentations. Dr. Bailey has...

Maria Blum, MSW, LICSW, is a clinical team manager at the Klarman Eating Disorders Center at McLean Hospital. She provides individual and group therapy to residents of the program. During the course of her career, she has also worked extensively with individuals with borderline personality disorder...

Maggie Gorraiz, PhD, is a child and adolescent psychologist and a DBT-Linehan certified DBT clinician. She has extensive experience in providing assessment and treatment of children and adolescents struggling with problems related to emotion dysregulation, including suicidal and self-harming...

Daniel Zwillenberg, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist at McLean Hospital’s 3East adolescent DBT program. He is also an instructor in psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Prior to moving to Massachusetts in 2013, Dr. Zwillenberg served as the director of Externship...

Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD, is the director, Training in Family Services for the 3East Continuum. He has adapted and implemented dialectical behavior therapy for underserved populations, and developed many successful DBT programs for people with borderline personality disorder and other problems with...

In his role as medical director of the Gunderson Outpatient Program, Joe B. Flores, MD, oversees intensive treatment for individuals with borderline personality disorder and other complex personality disorders. The program strives to develop effective treatment approaches for individuals who...

Sophia Maurasse, MD, has a longstanding interest and experience in treating medically ill patients with psychiatric disorders and in the use of behavioral interventions. During residency, she worked as lead resident in the oncology clinic, using cognitive behavioral therapy to treat patients in...

Adriana Claudio-Hernández, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist in the 3East Residential Programs, where she specializes in the treatment of adolescents and young adults with emerging traits of borderline personality disorder, emotional dysregulation, and injurious/suicidal behaviors. Dr. Claudio...