Borderline Personality Disorder Related Content

Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Your Toolbox for Managing Emotions

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is one of the most common treatment options for certain mental health conditions. Originally used to address borderline personality disorder (BPD), now DBT is also used to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bulimia, and substance addiction...

4 Myths About Borderline Personality Disorder

So you think you know about borderline personality disorder ? Think again. Many of us have seen the movie “Fatal Attraction,” where the lead female character is described as having borderline personality disorder (BPD), but the diagnosis is not that Hollywood portrayal. In fact, despite great...

How Working Improves Your Mental Health

For those who have experienced life-altering events or diagnoses, getting a job may be the last thing on their mind. They may consider it out of the question altogether. But it turns out that working has significantly more value than a paycheck alone. Karen L. Jacob, PhD , program director of McLean...

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens

Being a teenager is difficult. Teens go through many changes, including social and educational changes and hormonal mood swings. Sometimes teens act without thinking if they will get into trouble, with out-of-character actions, thoughts, and feelings all being part of the typical teen experience...

Everything You Need To Know About Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex condition. It affects how a person feels about themselves and others. BPD is characterized by intense, unstable emotions and relationships as well as insecurity and self-doubt. BPD makes everything about a person feel unstable, ranging from moods...

A Guide to General Psychiatric Management

General psychiatric management (GPM), also known as good psychiatric management, is a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is a complex condition that can make everything about a person’s life feel unstable, including their emotions, sense of self, and relationships. While BPD is...

Understanding Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

People living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often struggle with self-image, emotional stability, and relationships with others. Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) treats BPD by concentrating on the relationship between the therapist and patient. Transference refers to feelings a...

Mentalization-Based Treatment for Adolescents (MBT-A) Basic Training

MBT for Adolescents focuses on enhancing and stabilizing mentalizing in the adolescent and their family or care network to reduce symptoms and facilitate adaptation, resilience, and growth. This intensive training course is made up of 3 days of live, instructor-led content and 8 hours of self-guided...

Self Pathology and Personality Disorder: Course Day 2

This 2-day workshop—on April 26 and May 17—will outline current gaps and lack of a consensus in understanding the self before reviewing an evolutionary approach to selfhood. The course will describe the role of the self in personality disorder and different forms of self pathology, outline the...

Self Pathology and Personality Disorder: Course Day 1

This 2-day workshop—on April 26 and May 17—will outline current gaps and lack of a consensus in understanding the self before reviewing an evolutionary approach to selfhood. The course will describe the role of the self in personality disorder and different forms of self pathology, outline the...

Do’s and Don’ts in Treating Narcissistic Personality Disorder

This 1-day workshop will present evidence-based information on principles, strategies, and interventions associated with change in patients who struggle with pathological narcissism, including narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Offered by the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean...

Mentalization-Based Treatment Basic Training: Online Course for Clinicians

This course is made up of 3 days of live, instructor-led content and 21 hours of self-guided content. Participants learn how to implement mentalization-based treatment (MBT) techniques within their clinical practice as a specialist treatment. Offered by the Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute...

Staff Profile: Jodie O’Malley, MSW, LICSW

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...

Staff Profile: Brian W. Boyle, MD

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...

Staff Profile: Anna Precht, PsyD

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...

Staff Profile: George W. Smith, LICSW

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...

Staff Profile: Julia Lustick, MD

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...

Staff Profile: Leila Guller, PhD

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...