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Commentary on "Personality traits and the classification of mental disorders: toward a more complete integration in DSM-5 and an empirical model of psychopathology"John G Gunderson
Department of Psychosocial and Personality Research, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Personal Disord 1:119-22. 2010....
Revising the borderline diagnosis for DSM-V: an alternative proposalJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
J Pers Disord 24:694-708. 2010..These changes are incremental, diminish overlap and heterogeneity, sustain clinical and research development, and will improve utilization...
Family study of borderline personality disorder and its sectors of psychopathologyJohn G Gunderson
The Borderline Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:753-62. 2011..The familiality of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its sectors of psychopathology are incompletely understood...
Ten-year course of borderline personality disorder: psychopathology and function from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders studyJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 68:827-37. 2011..Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is traditionally considered chronic and intractable...
Descriptive and longitudinal observations on the relationship of borderline personality disorder and bipolar disorderJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Belmont, MA
Am J Psychiatry 163:1173-8. 2006....
New onsets of substance use disorders in borderline personality disorder over 7 years of follow-ups: findings from the Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders StudyMarc Walter
Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA
Addiction 104:97-103. 2009..The purpose of this study was to examine whether patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) have a higher rate of new onsets of substance use disorders (SUD) than do patients with other personality disorders (OPD)...
Predictors of 2-year outcome for patients with borderline personality disorderJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, 155 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Psychiatry 163:822-6. 2006..The primary purpose of this report was to investigate whether characteristics of subjects with borderline personality disorder observed at baseline can predict variations in outcome at the 2-year follow-up...
Plausibility and possible determinants of sudden "remissions" in borderline patientsJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Psychiatry 66:111-9. 2003..In conclusion, patients with BPD can make significant improvements that are rapid and of sufficient duration to be considered remissions. Determinants were identified that warrant further prospective evaluation...
The relationship between self-reported attachment styles, interpersonal dysfunction, and borderline personality disorderLois W Choi-Kain
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Nerv Ment Dis 197:816-21. 2009..A combination of preoccupied and fearful self-reported attachment styles is more specific to BPD than either style alone or attachment insecurity in general...
Mentalization: ontogeny, assessment, and application in the treatment of borderline personality disorderLois W Choi-Kain
Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, 115 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Psychiatry 165:1127-35. 2008..Research elucidating the relationship between reflective function, overlapping concepts, and features of borderline psychopathology is needed...
Disturbed relationships as a phenotype for borderline personality disorderJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 210 Administration, 115 Mill St, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1637-40. 2007
BPD's interpersonal hypersensitivity phenotype: a gene-environment-developmental modelJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
J Pers Disord 22:22-41. 2008..Some implications from this gene-environment interactional theory for a better developmental understanding of BPD's etiology are discussed...
Manual assisted cognitive treatment for deliberate self-harm in borderline personality disorder patientsIgor Weinberg
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
J Pers Disord 20:482-92. 2006..In contrast, MACT did not affect the level of suicide ideation and time-to-repeat of DSH. In conclusion, MACT seems to be a promising intervention for DSH in patients with BPD. More definitive studies are needed...
Borderline personality disorder: ontogeny of a diagnosisJohn G Gunderson
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Psychiatry 166:530-9. 2009..The purpose of this article is to describe the development of the borderline personality disorder diagnosis, highlighting both the obstacles encountered and the associated achievements...
Reported childhood onset of self-mutilation among borderline patientsMary C Zanarini
Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
J Pers Disord 20:9-15. 2006..The results of this study suggest that a sizable minority of borderline patients first engage in self-harm as children and that the course of their self-mutilation may be particularly malignant...
Borderline psychopathology in the first-degree relatives of borderline and axis II comparison probandsMary C Zanarini
The Laboratory for the Study for Adult Development, McLean Hospital, and the Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
J Pers Disord 18:439-47. 2004..Taken together, the results of this study suggest that the subsyndromal phenomenology of BPD may be more common than the borderline diagnosis itself...
Alternative perspectives on psychodynamic psychotherapy of borderline personality disorder: the case of "Ellen"John G Gunderson
McLean Hospital Center for Treatment and Research on Borderline Personality Disorder, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Am J Psychiatry 164:1333-9. 2007
Family studies of borderline personality disorder: a reviewCandace N White
McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass. 02478, USA
Harv Rev Psychiatry 11:8-19. 2003..Because of significant methodological problems, most notably indirect assessments and inadequate sample size, major questions persist about the familial aggregation of this disorder that require more definitive methods...
Preliminary data on an acceptance-based emotion regulation group intervention for deliberate self-harm among women with borderline personality disorderKim L Gratz
McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Behav Ther 37:25-35. 2006..While these preliminary results are promising, the study's limitations require their replication in a larger-scale randomized controlled trial...
