Borderline Personality Disorder patients now have access to several effective therapies including dialectical behavioral therapy, mentalization based therapy and psychiatric management with goals of ...

DBT Skills Group is open to any adult age 18 and up who is looking for a safe group experience to develop skills in managing emotions, interpersonal effectiveness, mindfulness and distress tolerance.

Many psychiatric terms have become part of the popular lexicon. Terms such as “bipolar” and “OCD” are thrown around to describe a moody family member or an organized friend. Other examples: “manic,” ...

Hope is an active process that includes a vision or picture of a better future, imagination and fantasy of a better life with more opportunities, trusting that it can happen, and a conviction that it ...

A “favorite person” (FP) in borderline personality disorder (BPD) describes someone to whom an individual with BPD relies the most for support and reassurance. This bond can be profoundly emotional, ...

If the post-holidays are bad for a lot of us, to those phoning Valerie Porr’s Soho loft—which serves as ground zero for a major national hotline and referral service for sufferers of borderline ...

A new neuroimaging study suggests that adolescents with borderline personality disorder exhibit distinct patterns of brain ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has a mostly negative image among patients and mental health specialists. People with BPD can be perceived as manipulative, narcissistic, and self-obsessed. At ...