"You sure she's not making this up?": A qualitative investigation of stigma toward adults with borderline personality disorder in physical healthcare settings.

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is associated with pervasive stigma that contributes to several consequences, such as inaccessible and inadequate healthcare. Existing literature concerning the experiences of BPD stigma within healthcare settings predominantly centers on mental healthcare contexts. However, individuals with BPD also present with elevated physical disabilities and health concerns, demonstrating a need for regular contact with medical professionals to manage and coordinate physical healthcare.

You say it's not me: the influence of offering external explanations of rejection and acceptance behavior on the perception of benevolence in borderline personality disorder.

Background: Interpersonal impairments in patients diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are characterized by the fear of being rejected and high levels of loneliness. Potential underlying factors are alterations in the processing of social interactions and the associated perceptions of social partners. In this regard, BPD patients tend to attribute the cause of negative rather than positive events to their own person and to perceive others as less trustworthy than healthy controls (HCs).

The societal costs of avoidant personality disorder.

The study aims to estimate the societal costs of avoidant personality disorder (AvPD). Cross-sectional data on AvPD patients during 2017-2020 were retrieved from the quality register of the Norwegian Network for Personality Disorders. Cost estimations were based on a bottom-up approach, using a structured interview covering the 6-month period prior to initial assessment.

Betrayal Trauma and Personality Pathology: An Integrated Review.

Personality pathology is a common and debilitating problem for many, and among the factors associated with personality pathology is trauma. Recent research on the association between personality pathology and trauma has highlighted the role of trauma perpetrated by a person whom the victim trusts and/or relies upon for support (i.e.

Prediction of borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma with the mediating role of experiential avoidance.

Introduction: Traits of borderline personality disorder are important for the determination of the prognosis of mental illnesses and in evaluating risks of negativity as well as impulsivity. But, there is a lack of information about the distribution characteristics of borderline personality disorder traits and symptoms within clinical groups. The goal of the current study was to predict borderline personality disorder based on childhood trauma, using experiential avoidance as a mediator.

Ketamine for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Background: Inadequate response to first- and second-line pharmacological treatments for psychiatric disorders is commonly observed. Ketamine has demonstrated efficacy in treating adults with treatment-resistant depression (TRD), with additional off-label benefits reported for various psychiatric disorders. Herein, we performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the therapeutic applications of ketamine across multiple mental disorders, excluding mood disorders.

Complex Trauma and Mentalizing Ability in College Students With or Without Borderline Personality Disorder: A Mixed Method Approach.

Background: Exposure to complex trauma in early childhood can undermine the development of mentalization capacity. Complex trauma has also been causally linked to borderline personality disorder (BPD). The inclusion of complex post-traumatic stress disorder in ICD-11 has made it imperative to have an in-depth understanding of complex trauma.

Anorexia Nervosa in Comorbidity With Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescence: A Specific Clinical Endophenotype?

Objective: Anorexia nervosa and borderline personality disorder are often associated and share some core elements, including emotional dysregulation and affective instability. Nevertheless, the association of these two conditions in adolescence is still little studied.

Method: The present study aims at investigating, through a multidimensional assessment, the psychopathological characteristics of adolescents affected by anorexia nervosa in comorbidity with borderline personality disorder on a sample of 127 female adolescents, through the comparison with adolescents with borderline personality disorders and adolescents with anorexia nervosa.

The psychiatrist as a ragpicker. Introduction to Walter Benjamin for psychiatrists (II): the dialectics between the fragment and the whole.

In this paper, taking a cue from the image provided by Walter Benjamin, I argue that the work of the psychiatrist can be compared to that of the ragpicker who collects what others consider to be 'waste', rescuing it from oblivion and transforming it into a key resource for treatment. I review two 'logics of discovery'- phenomenologically inspired structural psychopathology and that of narrative psychopathology - whose purpose is to complement mainstream diagnostic approach based on 'ticking boxes'. I try to identify the shortcomings of these two methodologies, in particular the confirmation bias that can cause selective inattention to anything that does not fit into the expected structure or narrative.

PSORIASIS AND MENTAL HEALTH: A PSYCHODERMATOLOGICAL APPROACH WITH AN EMPHASIS ON PSYCHOTHERAPY.

Psoriasis is a multifactorial, inflammatory, chronic disease caused by the complex interaction of genetic and environmental factors, including psychosocial distress. This review reasons the importance of the biopsychosocial model and why it should be considered when treating patients with psoriasis. We aimed to provide current evidence for the psychological etiopathogenesis, psychosocial comorbidities, psychosocial assessment, and psychological therapeutic interventions in psoriasis.

Understanding the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A Study on Offenders.

Background: Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is well known for its effectiveness in addressing psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and borderline personality disorder, often used alongside medication.

Summary: CBT is used more often in the criminal justice system to help rehabilitate offenders by targeting cognitive distortions affecting their social and decision-making abilities. These maladaptive behaviours and sense of entitlement can result from distortions, which CBT works to address by restructuring thought patterns and encouraging adaptive behaviours.

Missing outcome data in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a review of published trial reports in major psychiatry journals.

Background: Missing outcome data can pose a serious threat to the validity of randomised clinical trial results. We aimed to study the extent of missing outcome data in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study of randomised clinical trial reports of psychological interventions published in World Psychiatry, JAMA Psychiatry, Lancet Psychiatry, American Journal of Psychiatry, British Journal of Psychiatry, or Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics from 2017 to 2022.

The association between minority stressors, intraminority stressors, and borderline personality disorder symptomatology among sexual minority men.

Sexual minority men are more likely to be diagnosed with borderline personality disorder compared to their heterosexual counterparts. Minority stressors have been associated with criteria for borderline personality disorder (e.g.

Tell Me about yourself: Analyzing self-referential language use in borderline personality disorder.

Depression and some other illnesses are associated with increased self-reference and negative emotion in language. Research findings on lexical patterns in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have been inconsistent. We conducted two studies to evaluate lexical markers of distress in BPD: First compared to healthy controls (HC), and later compared to Post-Traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) patients and trauma-exposed controls (TC).

Investigating visuo-tactile mirror properties in borderline personality disorder: A TMS-EEG study.

Objectives: Patients with borderline personality disorder (pw-BPD) have decreased levels of cognitive empathy, which may be subtended by mirror-like mechanisms in the somatosensory cortices, i.e., the Tactile Mirror System (TaMS).