Borderline Personality Disorder in the Medial Setting

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This book provides the reader with a general overview of borderline personality including: (a) a clinical definition of the disorder, (b) epidemiology (eg: prevalence, gender-specific characteristics, ethnic/geographic variation, associated clinical features such as multiple comorbid medical and psychiatric diagnoses), (c) etiology (i.e., a multi-determined disorder with strong clinical associations with childhood trauma), (d) psychological themes (e.g., particularly the evolving role of victimhood from childhood through adulthood), (e) diagnosis (i.e., criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Self-Harm Inventory, the borderline subscale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4, and the Mclean Screening Inventory for Borderline Personality Disorder), (f) the classic presentation in the psychiatric setting compared with the "medicalized" presentation in the medical setting (the truly unique portion of the book, which focuses on medically self-defeating behaviours, somatic preoccupation, chronic pain syndromes including fibromyalgia, multiple somatic diagnoses, multiple drug sensitivities/allergies, and disability), and (g) general treatment principles in the medical setting.