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Social Judgement in Borderline Personality Disorder

Social Judgement in Borderline Personality Disorder

    Katie Nicol , Merrick Pope, Reiner Sprengelmeyer, Andrew W. Young, Jeremy Hall Published: November 6, 2013  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0073440 Abstract Background Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common and serious mental illness, associated with a high risk of suicide and self harm. Those with a diagnosis of BPD often display difficulties with social interaction and struggle to form and maintain interpersonal relationships. Here we investigated the ability of participants with BPD to make social inferences from faces. Method 20 participants…

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Components of Emotion Dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Review

Components of Emotion Dysregulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Review

Ryan W. Carpenter and Timothy J. Trull Author information ► Copyright and License information ► The publisher’s final edited version of this article is available at Curr Psychiatry Rep See other articles in PMC that cite the published article. Curr Psychiatry Rep. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2014 Apr 2. Published in final edited form as: Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2013 Jan; 15(1): 335. doi:  10.1007/s11920-012-0335-2 PMCID: PMC3973423 NIHMSID: NIHMS559334 Abstract Following Linehan’s biosocial model, we conceptualize emotion dysregulation in borderline…

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Coping with borderline personality disorder

Coping with borderline personality disorder

  Borderline personality disorder facts. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a difficult personality disorder to deal with. Coping with borderline personality disorder requires persistence, patience, rest, a healthy rhythm, and a good friend or therapist to reach out to. Without these key ingredients coping with borderline personality disorder can be extremely difficult and damaging (think of relationships and self-harm). This page focuses on coping skills for those people with BPD who rather try things themselves before considering reaching out to…

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Dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder | BJPsych Advances

Dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder | BJPsych Advances

Dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder Robert L. Palmer Advances in Psychiatric Treatment Jan 2002, 8 (1) 10-16; DOI: 10.1192/apt.8.1.10 The concept of borderline personality disorder (BPD) seems to include, almost by definition, the idea that people described by the term are difficult to help. The broad picture portrayed by the diagnostic criteria (Box 1⇓) is likely to be familiar to most clinicians and to cause the hearts of many to sink. A core issue for those with BPD…

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)

Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD)

Introduction Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is characterized by an inflexible adherence to rules or systems or an affinity to cleanliness and orderly structure. OCPD is sometimes referred to as Anankastic Personality Disorder. OCPD people may be mistrusting of others who may not hold the same convictions or understand their need for things to be just right. They may have trouble delegating, trusting others, sharing responsibilities or compromising. They may be obsessively clean or hygienic. OCPD vs OCD Although they…

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