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Personality Disorders

Last update: 13 May 2008,
by Maureen Bell



LIST OF MENTAL HEALTH TOPICS

Aboriginal Mental Health

Administration and Policy in Mental Health

Anxiety Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, and Phobias

Art Collections and Art Therapy

Books By or About People with a Mental Illness

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Consumers and Carers

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

Depression

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Dual Diagnosis

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Evidence-Based Mental Health

Forensic Psychiatry

Geriatrics and Geriatric Psychiatry

Guidelines
- to assist with clinical treatment issues

Health Promotion (Mental Health)

Housing for People with a Mental Illness
- includes problems of homelessness

Legislation

Mental Health (General mental health sites)

Personality Disorders

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Primary Care - Mental Health

Psychiatric Drug Information

Psychiatric Nursing

PubMed (a free version of Medline) - and how to use it

Rating Scales

Rehabilitation and Recovery

Rural Mental Health

Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders

Statistics

Suicide and Self-Injurious Behaviour

Theorists and Theories

Violence, Aggression and Dangerous Behaviour

Lists of journal articles and books can be found on my bibliographies and reading lists page under borderline personality disorder, dialectical behaviour therapy, and personality disorders

Links on antisocial personality disorder are on my forensic psychiatry page.
For practice guidelines related to personality disorders click here

Library members have online access to the following journals which may be of interest for this subject.

European Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality
Journal of Personality Assessment
Journal of Personality Disorders
Journal of Research in Personality


All In The Mind - 20 November 2004  - Over the Borderline
Transcript and audio from All in the Mind, a series on ABC Radio National.

Borderline Personality Disorder
A discussion of borderline personality disorder by John M Rathbun, an American psychiatrist.

Borderline Personality Disorder
A description of borderline personality disorder characteristics and diagnostic criteria, from the Self Injury web site maintained by Deb Martinson, a psychologist with an interest in this field.

Borderline Personality Disorder
A collection of resources from Internet Mental Health.

Borderline Personality Disorder: Pathways to Effective Service Delivery and Clinical Treatment Options
By Roy Krawitz with Christine Watson. Published by the Mental Health Commission, Wellington, New Zealand, 1999. (Mental Health Commission Occasional Publications: No.2).

Borderline Personality Disorder Research Foundation: Publications
This page has links to documents discussing psychopathology, comorbidity and personality structure, biology, genetics and clinical course, co-authored by Andrew E. Skodol, Larry J. Siever, W. John Livesley, John G. Gunderson, Bruce Pfohl, and Thomas A.Widiger.

Borderline Personality Disorder Sanctuary
Similar to the Bipolar Disorder Sanctuary this site is intended for sufferers, their families, and clinicians. It is well organised with a wealth of information on the subject, and contains a useful Borderline Personality Disorder Articles section.

Borderline Personality Disorder Today
Part of the Mental Health Today web site, maintained by Patty Pheil who holds a masters degree in social work.

Borderline Personality Organisation
By Steve Cottrell and Peter Jones. Steve Cottrell is a psychiatric nurse specialising in training, research and development. This page is part of his excellent Clinical Supervision in Nursing Pages

BPD Central
This is a resource for people who care for someone with borderline personality disorder.

The Effectiveness of Nursing Interventions with Personality Disorders: A systematic review of the literature
A report compiled by Phil Woods, and David Richards, University of Manchester, School of Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting, January 2002.

eMedicine - Personality Disorders : Article by David Bienenfeld, MD
eMedicine's content is intended for physicians and other healthcare professionals and is peer reviewed.

Dr. Grohol's Psych Central - Personality Disorders
Dr John Grohol is an American psychologist with a long and successful history of involvement with computers and the online world.

Evolution-Based Personality Theory
This page is part of The Official Website of Theodore Millon and The Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology (IASPP).

Kathi's Mental Health Review and Borderline Personality Disorder
A wide range of resources with emphasis on consumer information.

Links between juvenile sexually abusive behaviour and emerging severe personality disorder traits in childhood
A detailed study of 280 juvenile sexual offenders referred to a specialist Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service was conducted in order to provide a detailed description of this population. Clinical, policy and research implications are discussed in this document. Department of Health (UK), November 2006.

Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Re-Visited
This site belongs to Sam Vaknin.

MedlinePlus: Personality Disorders
A collection of resources on this topic from MEDLINEplus, the National Library of Medicine's information service for the public.

Mental Help Net - Personality Disorders

THE MERCK MANUAL, Section 15, Chapter 191, Personality Disorders
From the online version of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder Today
Part of the Mental Health Today web site, maintained by Patty Pheil who holds a masters degree in social work.

Personality disorder capacity plans 2005
During 2005, commissioners, clinicians, service users and other stakeholders worked together to produce personality disorder capacity plans for their local areas. This report provides: a national overview developed from analysis of the plans; commentary on common themes and a summary of actions arising from the plans. Department of Health (UK), September 2006.

Personality Disorder: No Longer a Diagnosis of Exclusion
From the Department of Health in the UK, policy implementation guidance for the development of services for people with personality disorder.

Personality Disorder Services Framework
Eastern Specialised Mental Health Commissioning Group (ESMHCG), National Health Service (NHS), June 2005.

Personality Disorders
From athealth.com.

Psychopathy in Psychiatry and Philosophy: An Annotated Bibliography
Compiled by Luca Malatesti, Institute of Applied Ethics, University of Hull (United Kingdom). Part of a research project supported by The Wellcome Trust, April 2007.

The Shack
An Australian site for information on borderline personality disorder.

The STEPPS Group Treatment Program for Borderline personality Disorder
By Don St. John, and Nancee Blum University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry. Internally Peer Reviewed. First Published: February 2000, Revised: June 2002.