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Researchers from City University of New York report details of new studies and findings in the area of personality disorders

Published in Physician Law Weekly, November 18th, 2009

According to recent research published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, "This study investigated whether deficits in mindfulness (attention, awareness, and acceptance of the present moment) underlie variability in borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and related impairments in interpersonal functioning, impulsivity, and emotion regulation. A path analytic. approach was used to examine the relationships of trait mindfulness with BPD features, interpersonal effectiveness, impulsive and passive emotion-regulation, and neuroticism in a psychiatric sample of adults (N = 70)."

"As hypothesized, mindfulness was associated inversely with BPD...

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