Tag Archives: personality disorder

On the borderline

May 10, 2008 – 8:37 pm

Let’s talk about…borderline personality disorder.
Hey, wait, where are you all going? Come back!
Utter those three fatal words in mental health services, and all the pejoratives come out. Let’s have a roll-call, shall, we? Let’s see, we’ve got “manipulative”, “demanding”, “drain on resources”, “not really a mental illness”…oh yes, and let’s not forget “untreatable”.
Now, let me [...]

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Junior Psychopaths

February 8, 2008 – 4:54 pm

One of the “pleasures” (if you can call it that) of child and adolescent mental health is that we get to see the next generation of mental health users growing up. Its a truism of child psychiatry that attachment disorders grow up to become borderline personality disorders, conduct disorders grow up to become antisocial personality [...]

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The Henderson

February 7, 2008 – 10:44 am

Psychminded reports that mental health minister Ivan Lewis has cast doubt on the value of the soon-to-close Henderson Hospital’s model of treatment.
“I have received no advice suggesting that the [Henderson] model is far superior to other clinical interventions for people with personality disorders….I know that there is a debate about the strength of the evidence [...]

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