Borderline Personality Disorder, An Issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America: Volume 41-4

This issue of Psychiatric Clinics of North America, edited by Drs. Frank Yeomans and Kenneth Levy, will offer a comprehensive review of key topics of importance in the study of Borderline Personality Disorder. The series is led by our Consulting Editor, Dr. Harsh Trivedi of Sheppard Pratt Health System. This issue will explore the following topics: Conceptual models, Diagnosis and assessment, Differential diagnosis, Community and Clinical Epidemiology, Comorbidity, Longitudinal Course, Neuroscience and social cognition, Attachment, Psychotherapy and medication treatment research, Psychotherapy with children and adolescents, and Family and patient perspectives, among others.

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Preface

1. Conceptual Models of Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 1: Overview of Prevailing and Emergent Models

2. An Object-Relations Based Model for the Assessment of Borderline Psychopathology

3. Differential Diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder

4. Community and Clinical Epidemiology of Borderline Personality Disorder *

   • 5. Comorbidity of Borderline Personality Disorder: Current Status and Future Directions

5. The Longitudinal Course of Borderline Personality Disorder

6. The Neurobiology of Borderline Personality Disorder

7. Social Cognition and Borderline Personality Disorder: Splitting and Trust Impairment Findings

8. Adolescence as a Sensitive Period for the Development of Personality Pathology

9. Attachment and Borderline Personality Disorder

10. Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

11. Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents

12. Borderline Personality Disorder: Barriers to BPD Treatment and Opportunities for Advocacy

13. What's Next? A Clinical Overview

14. Conceptual Models of Borderline Personality Disorder, Part 2: A Process Approach and its Implications