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Frontal EEG asymmetry in borderline personality disorder is associated with alexithymia

Frontal EEG asymmetry is a widely studied correlate of emotion processing and psychopathology. Recent research suggests that frontal EEG asymmetry during resting state is related to approach/withdrawal motivat...

Authors: Vera Flasbeck, Stoyan Popkirov and Martin Brüne

Standard 12 month dialectical behaviour therapy for adults with borderline personality disorder in a public community mental health setting

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) is noted to be an intervention with a growing body of evidence that demonstrates its efficacy in treating individuals diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD). E...

Authors: Daniel Flynn, Mary Kells, Mary Joyce, Paul Corcoran, Conall Gillespie, Catalina Suarez, Mareike Weihrauch and Padraig Cotter

Family Connections versus optimised treatment-as-usual for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder: non-randomised controlled study

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is challenging for family members who are often required to fulfil multiple roles such as those of advocate, caregiver, coach and guardian. To date, two uncontrolled studi...

Authors: Daniel Flynn, Mary Kells, Mary Joyce, Paul Corcoran, Sarah Herley, Catalina Suarez, Padraig Cotter, Justina Hurley, Mareike Weihrauch and John Groeger

Variations of emotion dysregulation in borderline personality disorder: a latent profile analysis approach with adult psychiatric inpatients

The purpose of the present study was to identify variations in emotional dysregulation patterns among adults diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD), with an eye toward implications for treatment.

Authors: Katrina A. Rufino, Thomas E. Ellis, Joshua Clapp, Catherine Pearte and J. Christopher Fowler

Trauma-related emotions and radical acceptance in dialectical behavior therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder after childhood sexual abuse

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) related to childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is often associated with a wide range of trauma-related aversive emotions such as fear, disgust, sadness, shame, guilt, and anger. I...

Authors: Nora Görg, Kathlen Priebe, Jan R. Böhnke, Regina Steil, Anne S. Dyer and Nikolaus Kleindienst

Combining emotion regulation and mindfulness skills for preventing depression relapse: a randomized-controlled study

Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills have become increasingly used to treat several psychiatric conditions, including major depressive disorder (MDD). The aim of the study was to investigate the efficac...

Authors: Matilde Elices, Joaquim Soler, Albert Feliu-Soler, Cristina Carmona, Thais Tiana, Juan C. Pascual, Azucena García-Palacios and Enric Álvarez

Subtypes of borderline personality disorder patients: a cluster-analytic approach

The borderline personality disorder (BPD) population is notably heterogeneous, and this has potentially important implications for intervention. Identifying distinct subtypes of patients may represent a first ...

Authors: Maaike L. Smits, Dine J. Feenstra, Dawn L. Bales, Jasmijn de Vos, Zwaan Lucas, Roel Verheul and Patrick Luyten

Impact of therapist change after initial contact and traumatic burden on dropout in a naturalistic sample of inpatients with borderline pathology receiving dialectical behavior therapy

This study focused on the predictors of therapy dropout in a naturalistic sample of patients with borderline pathology receiving dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) in an inpatient setting. We assumed that the ...

Authors: Carolin Steuwe, Michaela Berg, Martin Driessen and Thomas Beblo

The role of DSM-5 borderline personality symptomatology and traits in the link between childhood trauma and suicidal risk in psychiatric patients

Childhood traumas appear to be linked to suicidal behavior. However, the factors that mediate between these two phenomena are not sufficiently understood. Recent findings suggest that borderline personality di...

Authors: Bo Bach and Rita Fjeldsted

Aetiological pathways to Borderline Personality Disorder symptoms in early adolescence: childhood dysregulated behaviour, maladaptive parenting and bully victimisation

Developmental theories for the aetiology of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) suggest that both individual features (e.g., childhood dysregulated behaviour) and negative environmental experiences (e.g., ma...

Authors: Catherine Winsper, James Hall, Vicky Y. Strauss and Dieter Wolke

Affect in response to stressors and coping strategies: an ecological momentary assessment study of borderline personality disorder

Affect instability is a core symptom of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Ecological momentary assessment allows for an understanding of real-time changes in affect in response to various daily stressors....

Authors: Sadia R. Chaudhury, Hanga Galfalvy, Emily Biggs, Tse-Hwei Choo, J. John Mann and Barbara Stanley

Health related quality of life and psychopathological distress in risk taking and self-harming adolescents with full-syndrome, subthreshold and without borderline personality disorder: rethinking the clinical cut-off?

Diagnostic standards do not acknowledge developmental specifics and differences in the clinical presentation of adolescents with borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is associated with severe impairments...

Authors: Michael Kaess, Gloria Fischer-Waldschmidt, Franz Resch and Julian Koenig

What we have changed our minds about: Part 1. Borderline personality disorder as a limitation of resilience

This paper sets out a recent transition in our thinking in relation to psychopathology associated with personality disorder, in an approach that integrates our thinking about attachment, mentalizing (understan...

Authors: Peter Fonagy, Patrick Luyten, Elizabeth Allison and Chloe Campbell

What we have changed our minds about: Part 2. Borderline personality disorder, epistemic trust and the developmental significance of social communication

In Part 1 of this paper, we discussed emerging evidence suggesting that a general psychopathology or ‘p’ factor underlying the various forms of psychopathology should be conceptualized in terms of the absence ...

Authors: Peter Fonagy, Patrick Luyten, Elizabeth Allison and Chloe Campbell

Evaluation of a psychoeducational group intervention for family and friends of youth with borderline personality disorder

Despite high levels of burden and distress among families with a member who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), only two BPD specific family psychoeducation groups have been empirically evaluated. Neith...

Authors: Jessie Pearce, Martina Jovev, Carol Hulbert, Ben McKechnie, Louise McCutcheon, Jennifer Betts and Andrew M. Chanen

Anger and aggression in borderline personality disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – does stress matter?

The impact of stress on anger and aggression in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) has not been thoroughly investigated. The goal of this study was to inv...

Authors: Sylvia Cackowski, Annegret Krause-Utz, Julia Van Eijk, Katrin Klohr, Stephanie Daffner, Esther Sobanski and Gabriele Ende

Self-reported patterns of impairments in mentalization, attachment, and psychopathology among clinically referred adolescents with and without borderline personality pathology

Previous research, which primarily focused on adult samples, suggests that individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) display high levels of psychopathology, dysfunctional mentalization and problem...

Authors: Sune Bo and Mickey Kongerslev

Intersect between self-esteem and emotion regulation in narcissistic personality disorder - implications for alliance building and treatment

Building an alliance with patients with pathological narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder, NPD, can be challenging and include avoidance, negative reactivity and disruptions. A main contributing fac...

Authors: Elsa Ronningstam

Mental illness and violent behavior: the role of dissociation

The role of mental illness in violent crime is elusive, and there are harmful stereotypes that mentally ill people are frequently violent criminals. Studies find greater psychopathology among violent offenders...

Authors: Aliya R. Webermann and Bethany L. Brand

The specificity of emotion dysregulation in adolescents with borderline personality disorder: comparison with psychiatric and healthy controls

Research has supported the notion that emotion dysregulation is a core feature of BPD. However, given that this feature is typical of healthy adolescents as well as adolescents with other psychiatric disorders...

Authors: Marina Ibraheim, Allison Kalpakci and Carla Sharp

Affective instability and impulsivity predict nonsuicidal self-injury in the general population: a longitudinal analysis

Impulsivity and affective instability are related traits known to be associated with nonsuicidal self-injury, although few longitudinal studies have examined this relationship. The purpose of this study was to...

Authors: Evyn M. Peters, Marilyn Baetz, Steven Marwaha, Lloyd Balbuena and Rudy Bowen

“There is not much help for mothers like me”: Parenting Skills for Mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder – a newly developed group training program

Dysfunctional relationships and emotion dysregulation are hallmark features of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Women with BPD are, therefore, particularly challenged when raising a child. A group traini...

Authors: Babette Renneberg and Charlotte Rosenbach

Commentary to Nicastro et al. (2016), Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation

Authors: Nader Perroud and Ueli Kramer

A systematic review on the relationship between antisocial, borderline and narcissistic personality disorder diagnostic traits and risk of violence to others in a clinical and forensic sample

Risk assessments identify the presence of a Personality Disorder diagnosis as relevant to future violence. At present, risk assessments focus on the presence of the disorder rather than identifying key traits ...

Authors: Joe Lowenstein, Charlotte Purvis and Katie Rose

Women with exposure to childhood interpersonal violence without psychiatric diagnoses show no signs of impairment in general functioning, quality of life and sexuality

Childhood interpersonal violence is a major risk factor for developing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), other axis-I disorders or Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Individuals with a history of child...

Authors: Sophie Rausch, Julia Herzog, Janine Thome, Petra Ludäscher, Meike Müller-Engelmann, Regina Steil, Kathlen Priebe, Thomas Fydrich and Nikolaus Kleindienst

Experiences of women in secure care who have been prescribed clozapine for borderline personality disorder

Clozapine is an atypical antipsychotic medicine which can cause significant side-effects. It is often prescribed off-license in severe cases of borderline personality disorder contrary to national treatment gu...

Authors: Geoffrey L. Dickens, Catherine Frogley, Fiona Mason, Katina Anagnostakis and Marco M. Picchioni

Attention to emotional stimuli in borderline personality disorder – a review of the influence of dissociation, self-reference, and psychotherapeutic interventions

Interactions between attention and processing of emotional stimuli shed light on both sensitivity to emotional stimuli as well as emotion dysregulation. Both of the latter processes have been proposed as centr...

Authors: Dorina Winter

A new intervention for people with borderline personality disorder who are also parents: a pilot study of clinician acceptability

Engaging parents who have a personality disorder in interventions designed to protect children from the extremes of the disorder supports both parenting skills and healthy child development. In line with evide...

Authors: Kye L. McCarthy, Kate L. Lewis, Marianne E. Bourke and Brin F. S. Grenyer

Predicting dropout in outpatient dialectical behavior therapy with patients with borderline personality disorder receiving psychiatric disability

Rates of treatment dropout in outpatient Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the community can be as high as 24 % to 58 %, making dropout a great concern. The primary purpose of this article was to examine p...

Authors: Sara J. Landes, Samantha A. Chalker and Katherine Anne Comtois

Exploration of emotion regulation experiences associated with borderline personality features in a non-clinical sample

Emotion dysregulation is a core feature associated with borderline personality features (BPF). Little research has explored how individuals with high levels of BPF regulate their emotions. This study aimed to ...

Authors: Carly M. Porter, Carol A. Ireland, Kathryn J. Gardner and Mike Eslea

The impact of posttraumatic stress disorder on the symptomatology of borderline personality disorder

Previous findings on the impact of co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have revealed inconsistencies, which may have been related to small s...

Authors: Sylvia Cackowski, Tamar Neubauer and Nikolaus Kleindienst

Dialectical behavior therapy skills use and emotion dysregulation in personality disorders and psychopathy: a community self-report study

Emotion dysregulation is a critical transdiagnostic mental health problem that needs to be further examined in personality disorders (PDs). The current study examined dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills ...

Authors: Andrada D. Neacsiu and Mathew A. Tkachuck

Analyzing subcomponents of affective dysregulation in borderline personality disorder in comparison to other clinical groups using multiple e-diary datasets

Affective dysregulation is widely regarded as being the core problem in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Moreover, BPD is the disorder mainly associated with affective dysregulation. Howeve...

Authors: P. S. Santangelo, M. F. Limberger, C. Stiglmayr, M. Houben, J. Coosemans, G. Verleysen, P. Kuppens, F. Tuerlinckx, W. Vanpaemel and U. W. Ebner-Priemer

Psychometric properties of the French borderline symptom list, short form (BSL-23)

The short form of the Borderline Symptom List (BSL-23) is a self-rating instrument used to assess specific symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD). The original German version has shown good psychome...

Authors: Rosetta Nicastro, Paco Prada, Anne-Lise Kung, Virginie Salamin, Alexandre Dayer, Jean-Michel Aubry, Florence Guenot and Nader Perroud

Difficulties in emotion regulation in patients with eating disorders

A defining characteristic of eating disorders (EDs) is difficulty with emotion regulation (ER). Previous research indicates that ED subtypes demonstrate differing ER difficulties. Specifically, individuals wit...

Authors: Catherine Ruscitti, Katrina Rufino, Natalie Goodwin and Rebecca Wagner

The specificity of mental pain in borderline personality disorder compared to depressive disorders and healthy controls

Individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) may experience a qualitatively distinct depression which includes “mental pain.” Mental pain includes chronic, aversive emotions, negative self-concept, a...

Authors: Eric A. Fertuck, Esen Karan and Barbara Stanley

Effects of mindfulness training on different components of impulsivity in borderline personality disorder: results from a pilot randomized study

Impulsivity is considered a core characteristic of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Previous research on the effects of mindfulness training (MT) has shown that it might modify impulsivity-related aspect...

Authors: Joaquim Soler, Matilde Elices, Juan C. Pascual, Ana Martín-Blanco, Albert Feliu-Soler, Cristina Carmona and Maria J. Portella

Can’t stand the look in the mirror? Self-awareness avoidance in borderline personality disorder

Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) expect and perceive social rejection stronger than healthy individuals. Shifting ones attention from oneself to others has been suggested as a mechanism to d...

Authors: Dorina Winter, Katrin Koplin and Stefanie Lis

Personality disorders and violence: what is the link?

Despite a well-documented association between personality disorders (PDs) and violence, the relationship between them is complicated by the high comorbidity of mental disorders, the heterogeneity of violence (...

Authors: Richard Howard

The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder: revisiting the prevalence and associations in a general population sample

The comorbidity of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is frequent, yet not well understood. The influence of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) in the development of this ...

Authors: Emily M. Scheiderer, Phillip K. Wood and Timothy J. Trull

Emotion recognition in borderline personality disorder: effects of emotional information on negative bias

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe deficits in social interactions, which might be linked to deficits in emotion recognition. Research on emotion recognition abilities in BPD reve...

Authors: Sabrina Fenske, Stefanie Lis, Lisa Liebke, Inga Niedtfeld, Peter Kirsch and Daniela Mier

Stigma towards borderline personality disorder: effectiveness and generalizability of an anti-stigma program for healthcare providers using a pre-post randomized design

Stigmatization among healthcare providers towards mental illnesses can present obstacles to effective caregiving. This may be especially the case for borderline personality disorder (BPD). Our study measured t...

Authors: Stephanie Knaak, Andrew CH Szeto, Kathryn Fitch, Geeta Modgill and Scott Patten

New-born females show higher stress- and genotype-independent methylation of SLC6A4 than males

Research has demonstrated an association between exposure to early life stress and an increased risk of psychiatric disorders in later life, in particular depression. However, the mechanism through which early...

Authors: Helene Dukal, Josef Frank, Maren Lang, Jens Treutlein, Maria Gilles, Isabell AC Wolf, Bertram Krumm, Renaud Massart, Moshe Szyf, Manfred Laucht, Michael Deuschle, Marcella Rietschel and Stephanie H Witt

Gender differences in aggression of borderline personality disorder

Aggression is a core feature of borderline personality disorder (BPD). Well-replicated results from the general population indicate that men engage in aggression more frequently than women. This article addres...

Authors: Falk Mancke, Katja Bertsch and Sabine C Herpertz

Adult attachment and emotion dysregulation in borderline personality and somatoform disorders

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) and somatoform disorders (SoD) involve significant problems in relationships and emotion regulation, but the similarities and differences between these disorders in these ...

Authors: Annemiek van Dijke and Julian D Ford

Erratum to: intensive inpatient treatment improves emotion-regulation capacities among adults with severe mental illness

Authors: J Christopher Fowler, Jon G Allen, John M Hart, Hannah Szlyk, Thomas E Ellis, B Christopher Frueh and John M Oldham

Rejection sensitivity and symptom severity in patients with borderline personality disorder: effects of childhood maltreatment and self-esteem

Interpersonal dysfunction in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by an ‘anxious preoccupation with real or imagined abandonment’ (DSM-5). This symptom description bears a close resemblance t...

Authors: Melanie Bungert, Lisa Liebke, Janine Thome, Katrin Haeussler, Martin Bohus and Stefanie Lis

Nightmares affect the experience of sleep quality but not sleep architecture: an ambulatory polysomnographic study

Nightmares and bad dreams are common in people with emotional disturbances. For example, nightmares are a core symptom in posttraumatic stress disorder and about 50% of borderline personality disorder patients...

Authors: Franc Paul, Michael Schredl and Georg W Alpers

The longitudinal course of non-suicidal self-injury and deliberate self-harm: a systematic review of the literature

Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) has been proposed as diagnostic entity and was added to the section 3 of the DSM 5. Nevertheless, little is known about the long-term course of this disorder and many studies ha...

Authors: Paul L Plener, Teresa S Schumacher, Lara M Munz and Rebecca C Groschwitz

Consistency and coherence in treatment outcome measures for borderline personality disorder

There is little consensus regarding outcomes assessment in borderline personality disorder treatment trials, making comparisons of results and meta-analytic studies difficult and far less generalizable. The cu...

Authors: Alok Madan and J Christopher Fowler