Borderline Personality Disorder

Kenneth N. Levy, Joanna Pantelides

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Abstract

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a highly prevalent, chronic, and debilitating disorder characterized by instability in one's sense of self, others, and mood. This instability is expressed as emotional lability, impulsivity, interpersonal dysfunction, angry outbursts, suicidality, and non-suicidal self-injury. One in 10 patients with BPD will end up dying from suicide. Those suffering from BPD are more likely to commit suicide than those with depression, PTSD, eating disorders, and unmediated bipolar disorder. BPD has historically been thought to be difficult to treat. However, several integrative treatments – deriving from both the cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic traditions – that have shown efficacy in randomized controlled trials and are now available to clinicians and their patients.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationThe Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences
Subtitle of host publicationVolume IV: Clinical, Applied, and Cross-Cultural Research
Publisherwiley
Pages89-95
Number of pages7
Volume4
ISBN (Electronic)9781119547181
ISBN (Print)9781119057475
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2020

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Psychology

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