Borderline Personality Disorder Related Content

Grateful Family Helps McLean Expand Access to Care

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex mental illness characterized by emotional hypersensitivity and unstable behaviors that is often misdiagnosed. Some clinicians avoid patients with BPD, believing they are difficult to work with and have poor outcomes. And the most effective evidence...

BPD and PTSD Treatment Innovator Kicks Off Training Clinics at McLean

Martin Bohus, MD, an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), recently presented clinical training sessions, a webinar, and a lecture at McLean Hospital. Through the clinical training sessions...

Video: Borderline Personality Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Hosted by Martin Bohus, MD, Heidelberg University, Germany. Over half of patients with BPD also struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Dr. Bohus, an expert clinician and researcher, discusses this co-occurrence between BPD and PTSD. He elaborates on the evidence-based treatment he has...

Video: Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Hosted by Elsa Ronningstam, PhD , McLean Hospital Narcissistic personality disorder is a grossly misunderstood mental health disorder. This webinar focuses on clarifying the condition of disordered narcissism—the internal and external functioning in people who struggle with this disorder—and...

Video: How DBT Helps Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD

Hosted by Nina Lewis-Schroeder, PhD, and Amy Dierberger, PhD , McLean Hospital This webinar focuses on reviewing the overlap in the symptom presentation of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and complex post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Lewis-Schroeder and Dierberger also discuss the use of...

Video: Mental Health in Boys and Young Men

For years, the general public and many in the psychiatric community have viewed mental illness in boys and mental illness in girls in very different ways. To illustrate, psychologist Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD , offered a simple test: “If I told you that a student in a classroom was pounding on a desk...

BPD Research at McLean: Improving Knowledge and Treatment

According to Mary C. Zanarini, EdD , director of the Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development at McLean Hospital, “Research has proven that borderline personality disorder is a valid psychiatric disorder and not a catch-all category for challenging patients with different clinical presentations...

Video: Medication Approaches for Borderline Personality Disorder

Hosted by Brian A. Palmer, MD, MPH, Mayo Clinic. Dr. Palmer reviews what is known about medications for borderline personality disorder, with an emphasis on how to avoid the many pitfalls in using medications for BPD. Part of the BPD Patient and Family Webinar Series. PRESENTATION SLIDES

Video: Compassion Fatigue – Helping Family Members Cope With BPD

Hosted by Lois W. Choi-Kain, MEd, MD , McLean Hospital Compassion fatigue is a term that describes the way in which caregivers who are constantly giving are frequently at risk for mental instability and illness. Compassion fatigue symptoms are displays of chronic stress including isolation from...

Video: Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Borderline Personality Disorder

Hosted by Kristin N. Javaras, DPhil, PhD , McLean Hospital. Eating disorders are prevalent among adolescent and young adult women and are becoming increasingly common among middle-aged and older women, as well as boys and men. Dr. Javaras describes eating disorders and their symptoms (e.g...

A Family’s Suggestion Inspires Educational Series

The quest for information, resources, and support is a nearly universal need for families dealing with mental illness. One family, whose relative was treated for borderline personality disorder (BPD) at McLean, wanted to address that need and the family suggested that McLean leverage its...