Text adapted from: "The adult patient with a personality disorder," in Psychiatry in primary care by Michael Rosenbluth, Matthew Boyle & Lucille Schiffman (CAMH, 2019).
Resources
For primary care practitioners
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder Information for clinicians and people with BPD, includes a free video series for professionals.
I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus, TarcherPerigee, 2010.
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship, by Shari Y. Manning, Guilford Press, 2011.
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About the Authors
Michael Rosenbluth, MD, FRCPC,Chief, Department of Psychiatry, Michael Garron Hospital / Toronto East Health Network; associate professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
Matthew Boyle, BSc, MD, FRCPC Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto; staff psychiatrist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
Lucille Schiffman, DO candidate, Department of Medicine, Touro University California, Vallejo, CA