Borderline Personality Disorder: A Primer
To raise awareness of this perplexing personality disorder, this article summarizes the essential aspects of Borderline Personality, including its aetiology, characteristics and possible treatments.
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To raise awareness of this perplexing personality disorder, this article summarizes the essential aspects of Borderline Personality, including its aetiology, characteristics and possible treatments.
The DSM-V, expected to be published next year, will herald changes in the way clinicians conceptualize psychopathology and diagnoses. There is a trend towards more of a “developmental” and a “dimensional” approach to human nature.
Most curricula, teaching modalities, and even the educational environments themselves have failed to keep up with many crucial advances in technology. The entire landscape of higher education is beginning to change. It’s no small wonder that many of the bigger, more expensive traditional colleges and universities are getting nervous.
It’s our high degree of conscientiousness which leads us to be very careful about the laws we fashion to govern ourselves, especially when those laws might impinge upon the freedoms of others. Psychopaths know it, count on it, and sometimes use it to get away with murder.
Bullies delight in belittling others and are driven by the sense of power and perceived social status they derive from demeaning those they target. It should come as no surprise that they might try to achieve a sense of social power and standing by targeting those they perceive as the weak, the disadvantaged, and the developmentally disabled.
Make no mistake: psychopaths mean to do harm. It would be a social justice disaster if our growing awareness of the biological bases for their empathy deficits wound up better arming defense attorneys and adversely biasing judges when it comes to sanctioning the most dangerous individuals in our society.
Spirituality significantly impacts our physical and mental health — regardless of the type of rituals, belief systems, or religions to which someone might ascribe. That’s according to a recent study conducted at the University of Missouri, just the latest in a growing body of evidence about the mind-body connection and the role of spirituality in maintaining health.
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