Borderline Personality Disorder

Few effective treatments exist for borderline personality disorder

Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, March 6th, 2006

No single treatment stands out as especially effective for borderline personality disorder (BPD), a mental illness that can involve self-harm and suicide attempts, according to two new reviews of recent studies.

BPD does appear to respond more strongly to certain kinds of psychological "talk" therapies, researchers in Britain found. However, the psychological treatments that showed the most promise were relatively new and supported by "too few data for confidence," the reviews' authors say.

Because both are complex, intensive therapies that require long-term staff training, "we believe that such treatments will only be available to a select few...

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Source: Mental Health Weekly Digest (2006-03-06)

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