Dissociation is a common symptom in borderline personality disorder and is associated with an increased risk of suicidality ...

A primary characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the struggle to maintain consistent connections to others and to oneself. Indeed, two of the defining characteristics of BPD as ...

Histrionic and borderline personality disorders often feature overlapping symptom themes. As personality disorders belonging to the same group classification, they can both involve intense, emotional, ...

Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone’s everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research ...

The role of environment and pre-existing risk factors in BPD has identified new therapies. Growing awareness of this mental illness characterized by heightened emotional response and volatile ...

One of the enduring puzzles of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is its relentless contradiction. Patients desperately long for closeness yet recoil from it, fear abandonment while provoking it, ...