Personality Disorders

The experts weighed in on a wide variety of psychiatric issues for the February 2024 issue of Psychiatric Times.

Diagnosing this intricate comorbidity demands a nuanced approach. Here's what you need to know.

In patients seen in the medical setting, as many as 20% have personality disorders.

Given the paradoxical nature of borderline personality disorder, double bind communication appears to be a common method of engagement which ultimately serves only self-defeating purposes.

From a look at adolescent substance use to special challenges in treating borderline personality disorder during the perinatal period, here are highlights from the week in Psychiatric Times.

How can BPD traits affect the transition to parenthood?

Poster presented at the 2023 American Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting highlights the good and bad of social media information.

Session at the 2023 Annual Meeting provides framework for addressing suicidal ideation.

How can we effectively identify hoarding disorder, the various treatment options, and the research that informs these interventions?

In this CME, the link between personality disorders and violence is explored. Much still remains to be learned about the factors that mediate the link.

These 3 essential steps best support patients with borderline personality disorder, according to Carl Fleisher, MD.

Selfhood: a complex and continuously evolving identity that is anchored in the patient's history and dependent on language and memory. But there is so much more.

Fire setting is the current preferred term in the literature to describe acts of deliberately started fires regardless of their legal or diagnostic status.

Lack of empathy is a commonly known feature of narcissistic personality disorder. Relationships are typically shallow and difficult to maintain. What are some other features of NPD? More in this case presentation.

The image of the psychopath is that of a cold, heartless, inhuman being. But do all psychopaths show a complete lack of normal emotional capacities and empathy?

The country has erupted into a wave of anger that demands justice and reform; but what can we, psychiatrists, do when we hear “code black”?

This article explores why Enduring Personality Change After Catastrophic Experience (EPCACE) is a clinically useful diagnosis.

What do functional magnetic resonance neuroimaging findings reveal about the neurobiology of borderline personality disorder? Take the quiz and learn more.

Which medical condition-characterized by the rapid onset of delirium, mania, and psychosis-is linked with bipolar disorder? Take the 5-question quiz and learn more.

The authors describe an alternative model for BPD diagnosis that is dimensional in nature and requires fulfillment of 4 of 7 personality traits.

On the risk of accepting the practice of psychiatric diagnosis from afar.

What is the clinical approach to pathological narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder?

Proper technique, practiced over time, can transform an appointment from "medication management" to a serious change in behavior, as evidenced by the 5 examples featured in this article.

What are the benefits of traditional psychoanalytic concepts and new discoveries of mentalization-based treatment?

Here's what's new in personality disorders: DBT treatment, DSM-5 criteria, borderline personality disorder, narcissistic personalities, and mentalization-based treatments.

The latest research on DBT for treating psychiatric disorders, such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, and depression.

There is more to BPD than meets the eye. A complex interaction exists between environmental, anatomical, functional, genetic, and epigenetic factors.

MBT presents a compromise to bridge the valuable history of psychoanalytic ideas to both modern psychiatric research as well as present public health needs and practice.

An exploration topics that are relevant to most clinicians who work with patients with personality disorders.

Despite its survival and final inclusion in DSM-5, narcissistic personality disorder remains a controversial diagnosis. Here: perspectives on diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.