Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice

by Paris, Joel

• ISBN13: 9781606238646
• ISBN10: 1606238647
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-25
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know.

Author Biography

Joel Paris, MD, is a Research Associate at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Since 1994, he has been a Full Professor at McGill University and served as Chair of its Department of Psychiatry from 1997 to 2007. He has supervised psychiatric evaluation with residents for over 30 years and has won many awards for his teaching. Dr. Paris is a past president of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders. Over the last 20 years, he has conducted research on the biological and psychosocial causes and the long-term outcome of borderline personality disorder. Dr. Paris is the author of 153 peer-reviewed articles, 11 books, and 36 book chapters. He is also Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Table of Contents

Definitions
Making the Diagnosis	p. 3
The Boundaries of BPD	p. 25
Personality and Development	p. 44
Causes
Risk Factors	p. 61
A General Model	p. 86
Treatment
Outcome	p. 97
Pharmacotherapy	p. 113
Psychotherapy	p. 132
Guidelines for Management	p. 150
Therapeutic Interventions	p. 169
Problems in Therapy	p. 183
Suicidally and Hospitalization	p. 203
Research Directions	p. 219
References	p. 225
Index	p. 255
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