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Sinopsis

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) enjoys the dual distinction of being one of the most written about and talked about conditions in contemporary psychiatry, and of being the only condition among the nearly 400 in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) (1) whose label provides no hint, no semantic handle, as to what sort of condition it is. One might argue that the seven eponymous syndromes of the DSM (Alzheimer’s, Asperger’s, Creutzfeld–Jakob’s, Huntington’s, Pick’s, Rett’s, and Gilles de la Tourette’s) require a bit of study before their nature is clarified, but all the others either stem from common English roots (gambling, binge-eating, sleep disorder) or are decipherable from their Greek or Latin origins (trichotillomania: pathological pulling of hair; insomnia: absence of sleep, etc.). Borderline, when used adjectivally, suggests something that is in close proximity to something else. Indeed, in its first uses in psychiatry, borderline designated either (a) a condition that approximated another, already well-established disorder, or (b) a condition that occupied a region in between two rather indistinctly boundaried levels of mental functioning. As we shall see, the borderline of our current BPD is derived from both these usages.

Content

1. Borderline Personality Disorder: History of the Concept
2. The Subsyndromal Phenomenology of Borderline Personality Disorder
3. Environmental Factors in the Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder
4. A Temperament Model of Borderline Personality Disorder
5. Neurobiology of Impulsive Aggression
6. Biochemical Endophenotypes in Borderline Personality Disorder
7. Genetics of Borderline Personality Disorder
8. Comorbidity and Borderline Personality Disorder
9. Psychosocial Functioning in BPD
10. The Symptomatic Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
11. Suicidality in Borderline Personality Disorder
12. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder
13. Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
14. Pharmacotherapy of Borderline Personality Disorder
15. Family Interventions for Borderline Personality Disorder 
16. Day Hospital Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
17. Structural and Functional Imaging of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
18. Risk Factors for Suicidal Behavior in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Review and Update

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