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The Challenges Of Treating Personality Disorders
NPR: Personality disorders represent some of the most challenging and mysterious problems in the field of mental health. People suffering from antisocial personality disorder or obsessive compulsive personality disorder are often misdiagnosed. The effects on
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Thinking Clearly About Personality Disorders
The New York Times: For years they have lived as orphans and outliers, a colony of misfit characters on their own island: the bizarre one and the needy one, the untrusting and the crooked, the
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Borderline Personality Pathology and Sleep Problems in Later Middle-Age
Borderline personality pathology includes symptoms such as intense anger and mood swings, stormy relationships, impulsivity, and stress-related disassociation. Previous research shows that borderline pathology and sleep problems are associated with each other; they are also
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Fragmented sleep, fragmented personality?
Los Angeles Times: Maybe Sybil just needed a good night’s sleep. Multiple personality disorder is a rare and extreme form of what psychiatrists call “dissociative disorder,” and it was popularized by the publication in the
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Steve Balsis
Texas A&M University http://psychology.tamu.edu/Fac_Ext.php?ID=217 What does your research focus on? My research focuses on improving the assessment of clinical disorders (personality disorders, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, anxiety, etc.) in older adults. This topic is timely because
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Expert on Mental Illness Reveals Her Own Fight
The New York Times: HARTFORD — Are you one of us? The patient wanted to know, and her therapist — Marsha M. Linehan of the University of Washington, creator of a treatment used worldwide for
