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The ability to decode emotions is a basic social skill. Knowing whether the people you’re with are happy, angry, fearful, or sad will help you gauge how exactly to interact with them. In people with borderline personality, who are defined in part by their difficulties in relationships, the risk would seem greater than for most. On the one hand, they may become highly attuned to the facial expressions of the people they’re with, so as to determine whether they’re going…

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Schroeder, Katrina; Fisher, Helen L.b; Schäfer, Ingoa Current Opinion in Psychiatry: January 2013 – Volume 26 – Issue 1 – p 113–119 doi: 10.1097/YCO.0b013e32835a2ae7 PERSONALITY DISORDERS: Edited by Charles B. Pull and Aleksandar Janca   Abstract Purpose of review The aim of this article is to review findings on the prevalence, phenomenology and treatment of psychotic features in borderline personality disorder (BPD), and to discuss factors that might be related to their occurrence. Recent findings Of patients with BPD about 20–50% report…

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  by Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment in Related Conditions, BPD Symptoms People with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) often have trouble relating to other people, causing instability in their interpersonal relationships. If you have BPD, you may feel as though you need to secure extra assurance from others to help you maintain your relationships, which can result in the impulse to lie. Compulsive lying, or mythomania, can be common in people with Borderline Personality Disorder. This is because people with BPD…

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    February 01, 1996 | Antisocial Personality Disorder, Addiction, DSM IV, Personality Disorders By Robert D. Hare, PhD A Secret Service agent recently asked if I was familiar with a 1992 FBI report that almost half of the killers of law enforcement officers met the criteria for antisocial personality. I replied that I had not seen the report but that the finding did not seem surprising or noteworthy to me. My comment was based on the assumption that the…

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By Sravanthi Pajerla, MD and Alan R. Felthous, MD But what about psychopathic disorders? Persons with these disorders are usually considered untreatable and cannot be involuntarily admitted to a hospital. Yet psychopathy is the disorder that is most predictive of a person’s future aggression and foreseeable harm to others. Antisocial personality disorder is one of the few mental disorders for which aggressive behavior is a diagnostic criterion.1 “Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults,” is 1…

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      Psychotherapy  © 2012 American Psychological  Association 2012, Vol. 49, No. 2,  258 –270 0033-3204/12/$12.00    DOI:  10.1037/a0028256   PRACTICE REVIEW Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Psychosis in Clinical Practice Harry J. Sivec and Vicki L. Montesano Northeast Ohio Medical University   Harry J. Sivec and Vicki L. Montesano, Best Practices in Schizophrenia Treatment (BeST) Center, Department of Psychiatry, Northeast Ohio Medical University. This research was supported in part by a grant to the BeST Center from The Margaret Clark…

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  by Farid Chakhssi, Ph.D., Corine de Ruiter, Ph.D., & David Bernstein, Ph.D. Editor’s note: Drs. Chakhssi, de Ruiter, and Bernstein recently published an article, along with their co-author Dr. Truus Kersten, titled “Treating the untreatable: A single case study of a psychopathic inpatient treated with schema therapy” in Psychotherapy.   Chakhssi, F., de Ruiter, C., & Bernstein,B. (2014, November). Psychotherapy for individuals with psychopathy/antisocial personality disorder: A new frontier. [Web Article]. Retrieved from http://www.societyforpsychotherapy.org/psychotherapy-for-individuals-with-psychopathy-antisocial-personality-disorder   Can individuals with psychopathy be treated? From…

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Morten Hesse BMC Medicine20108:66 https://doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-8-66 ©  Hesse; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010 Received: 23 September 2010 Accepted: 27 October 2010 Published: 27 October 2010 Abstract Antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, dissocial personality disorder and sociopathy are constructs that have generally been used to predict recidivism and dangerousness, alongside being used to exclude patients from treatment services. However, ‘antisocial personality disorder’ has recently begun to emerge as a treatment diagnosis, a development reflected within cognitive behaviour therapy and mentalisation-based psychotherapy. Many of the behaviour characteristics of antisocial personality disorder are,…

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Many people who have been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are told that their chronic disorder is not treatable. However, BPD can have a good prognosis if properly treated. “It’s time to reject the notion that people with personality disorders are beyond help,” says Peter Aldhous. Personality disorders cause difficulties with social interactions that can be debilitating for those with the disorder as well as their loved ones. Time magazine summed up the reputation of BPD as “the disorder…

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