Borderline Personality Disorder Articles

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Important Articles

BPD Family Articles are here.

BPD Clinical Articles are found here. (Laypeople, feel free to check out the clinical articles).

Psychotropic Medication Articles can be found here.

Other Mental Health Articles are here.

Borderline Personality Disorder Personal Articles

  Over 40 personal and inspirational articles written by webmaster, Patty E. Fleener M.S.W. are here.

Consumer Articles

Articles written by consumers as well as other inspirational articles are here.

Borderline Personality Disorder Articles

Dysphoria Instruction Sheet

Relaxation is Important

Borderline Personality Disorder

A New Name for Borderline Personality Disorder (Also you can vote about the name you prefer).

An Introduction to BPD: Diagnosis, Origins, Course and Treatment

BPD and BP - Do we tell others? When?  Why?

NEA-BPD Family Conference Findings

Stigma and Some Online BPD Family Support Groups

Personality Disorder Charts

Personality Disorders (Information on all PD Disorders)

What's in a Name? Borderline Personality Disorder Label Creates Stigma

"Borderline Therapy" by Patty E. Fleener M.S.W.

Common Myths about the Borderline Personality Disorder by Patty E. Fleener M.S.W.

The Non-Dilemma (Thoughts about some BPD Online Family Groups) 

How Advocacy Is Bringing Borderline Personality Disorder Into the Light

An Overview of Dialectical Behavior Therapy in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

What are Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills?

Psychosocial Treatments

World Health Organization's ICD-10, F60.31: Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder, Borderline Type

Differential Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder: Raising Questions, Finding Answers

Borderline Personality Disorder:  Excerpts from "The Journal of the California Alliance of the Mentally Ill" (Robert L. Trestman, PhD., M.D., Kenneth R. Silk, M.D., Larry J. Siever, M.D., John M. Oldham., M.D., and Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D.)

Glen O. Gabbard, M.D. (author) discusses BPD

Borderline Personality Disorder (Includes Kernberg's Borderline Personality Organization, Gunderson's conception of BPD, The Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines, Revised, & Miscellaneous attributes of people with BPD)

Major Orientations to BPD

Eric Bellman, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. Discusses BPD

"The Hollow Self" by James F. Masterson, M.D. (author of The Search For the Real Self: Unmasking the Personality Disorders of Our Age)

Borderline Personality Disorder 

Understanding Self Injury 

A Promising Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder

Anonymous Account of the Borderline Personality Disorder

Computers (and Internet) pose special danger on "borderline-bipolar" subjects

Self Injury

Self Injury

Personality Disorder Tests (Caution:  An accurate diagnosis must be made by a qualified mental health professional).