Editorial: The Developmental Science of Borderline Personality Disorder

In a seminal review article on borderline personality disorder (BPD) for the American Journal of Psychiatry, John Gunderson once made the allusion that “borderline personality disorder is to psychiatry what psychiatry is to medicine”, suggesting that the condition is frequently neglected, even among mental health professionals and researchers1. For instance, BPD-related research received less than a tenth of the NIH funding compared to Bipolar Disorder research, despite sharing similar rates of prevalence, impairment, and mortality2.
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research