Borderlin personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a challenging condition that has received a surfeit of attention in the literature on personality disorders. The notorious difficulties in treating BPD patients have resulted in many theories and practices as clinicians attempt to make headway in treating people who are frequently suicidal and therapy-aversive, but whose intense psychological pain draws therapists in to their world. The diagnosis itself is often problematic; a key point is that as a personality disorder, the pattern of dysregulation and instability carries across all domains of the person’s life, unlike a mood disorder, which can leave a person some intact areas of functioning. Extreme impulsivity, irritability, raging, and reactivity are common to all BPD patients, but still, the population is heterogeneous.
Psychodynamic approaches, the most well known being Otto Kernberg’s work, have not been scientifically studied, but a psychoanalytical model (Bateman & Fonagy) ...