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Borderline Personality Disorder:
Diagnosis, Course, and
Treatment
Brad Reich, M.D.
McLean Hospital
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Outline
• Epidemiology
• Symptoms
• Theories of Borderline Personality Disorder
• Course of BPD Symptoms
• Remission and Recovery in BPD
• Psychopharmacological Treatments for BPD
• Psychotherapies for BPD
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Epidemiology
• BPD occurs in approximately 2% of the population
• BPD occurs in 10% of all psychiatric patients
• BPD occurs in 15-20% of all psychiatric inpatients
• BPD has been thought to be a disorder primarily of
women (75%), but thinking on this appears to be
changing
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BPD Symptoms (DSM V)
• Interpersonal
• Affective
• Impulsive
• Cognitive
• Identity Disturbance
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Interpersonal I
• A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal
relationships characterized by alternating
between extremes of idealization and
devaluation (DSM V)
• Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined
abandonment (DSM V)
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Interpersonal II
• Fear of Engulfment/Annihilation (DIB-R)
• Devaluation/Manipulation/Sadism (DIB-R)
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Impulsive I
• Self-injury (DSM V)
Burning Self
Cutting Self
Hitting Self
• Recurrent Suicidal Behavior, Gestures, Threats
(DSM V)
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Impulsive II (DSM V)
• Substance Abuse/Dependence
• Impulsive Spending/Gambling
• Reckless Driving
• Yelling
• Breaking Things
• Physical Assaults
• Binge Eating/Purging
• Sexual Impulsivity
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Affective
• Affective Instability due to marked reactivity of
Mood (intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or
anxiety usually lasting a few hours and rarely
more than a few days) (DSM V)
• Inappropriate and Intense Anger or Difficulty
Controlling Anger (DSM V)
• Chronic Anxiety (DIB-R)
• Chronic Depression (DIB-R)
• Feelings of Emptiness (DIB-R)
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Cognitive
• Transient Stress-Related Paranoia or Severe
Dissociative Symptoms (DSM V)
• Nondelusional Paranoia (DIB-R)
• Quasi-Psychotic Thinking (DIB-R)
• Odd Thinking/Unusual Perceptual Experiences
(DIB-R)
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Identity Disturbance
• Markedly and persistently unstable self-
image or sense of self (DSM V)
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DSM V Definition of Borderline Personality
Disorder
• Patient must meet criteria for 5 of 9 symptoms
listed above
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DIB-R
• Revised Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines
• 125 Items
• Each item scored: 0=not present; 1=probable; 2=present
• 4 Sections
Affect (0-2)
Cognition (0-2)
Impulsivity (0-3)
Interpersonal (0-3)
• Maximum score 10; cutoff for diagnosis for BPD 8
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What Causes Borderline Personality
Disorder I
• Emotion Dysregulation Coupled with an
Invalidating Environment (Linehan 1993)
• Interpersonal Hypersensitivity (Gunderson 2010)
• High Temperamental Levels of Anger Preventing
the Combining of Thoughts Related to Positive
Emotions with Thoughts Related to Negative
Emotions (Splitting) (Kernberg 1984)
• Hyperbolic Temperament (Zanarini 2007)
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What Causes Borderline Personality
Disorder II
• Many symptoms of borderline personality
disorder appear to have a strong genetic basis
• Symptoms may be associated with an abusive,
neglectful, or invalidating environment
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Comorbidity
• Borderline Personality Disorder is frequently
accompanied by symptoms of multiple other
psychiatric disorders
Major Depression
Anxiety Disorders
Substance Abuse
Eating Disorders
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Diagnostic Controversies
• Some researchers claim that the diagnosis is not
valid because it is associated with traits of other
personality disorders (Tyrer 2010)
• Some researchers claim that the diagnosis is not
valid because it really is a form of affective
disorder (Bipolar Disorder) (Akiskal 2004)
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Course of Symptoms in BPD
• Symptoms of BPD can be divided into acute and
temperamental (Zanarini et al. 2006)
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Acute Symptoms
• Quasi-Psychotic Thought
• Substance Abuse/Dependence
• Sexual Deviance
• Self-mutilation
• Manipulative Suicide Attempts
• Stormy Relationships
• Devaluation/Manipulation/Sadism
• Demandingness/Entitlement
• Treatment Regression
• Affective Instability
• Identity Disturbance
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Temperamental Symptoms
• Chronic Depression
• Helplessness/hopelessness/worthlessness
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Loneliness/Emptiness
• Odd Thinking/Unusual Perceptual Experiences
• Nondelusional Paranoia
• General Impulsivity (eating binges, spending sprees, reckless driving, yelling, breaking things, assaults)
• Intolerance of aloneness
• Abandonment/engulfment/annihilation concerns
• Dependency/Masochism
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McLean Study of Adult Development
• 362 Subjects
• 290 BPD: 72 OPD (other personality disorders)
• Age 18-35 upon enrollment
• IQ 71 or higher
• Fluent in English
• Followed every 2 years for 10+ years
• Exclusion Criteria: Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective
Disorder, Type I Bipolar Disorder, Organic Disorders
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10 Year Course of Substance Abuse/Dependence
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2 Year 4 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year
BPD
OPD
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2 Year 4 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year
10 Year Course of Self-Mutilation
BPD
OPD
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10 Year Course of Manipulative Suicide Attempts
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BPD
OPD
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10 Year Course of Stormy Relationships
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BPD
OPD
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10 Year Course of Chronic/Major Depression
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2 Year 4 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year
BPD
OPD
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10 Year Course of Anxiety
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2 Year 4 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year
BPD
OPD
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10 Year Course of Loneliness/Emptiness
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2 Year 4 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year
BPD
OPD
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10 Year Course of Intolerance of Aloneness
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2 Year 4 Year 6 Year 8 Year 10 Year
BPD
OPD
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Summary
• Impulsive Symptoms improve most rapidly
• Although affective instability improves substantially over
time, difficulties with anxiety, anger, and depression
remain common
• Quasi Psychotic Thinking improves substantially over
time, but odd thinking/unusual perceptual experiences
and nondelusional paranoia remain common.
• Active interpersonal symptoms, such as stormy
relationships improve significantly, but symptoms tied to
fears of separation appear more persistent.
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Summary
• Acute Symptoms were reported in 10 year follow-up by
less than 15% of patients who had reported them at
baseline.
• Temperamental Symptoms appear to decline but more
slowly
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Most Persistent Symptoms
Median Time to Remission 6-8 Years
• Chronic Depression
• Chronic Feelings of
helplessness/hopelessness/worthlessness
• Chronic Anxiety
• General Impulsivity
• Intolerance of Aloneness
• Counterdependency/serious conflicts over help/care
• Dependency/Masochism
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Median Time to Remission 8-10 Years
• Chronic Anger/Frequent Angry Acts
• Chronic loneliness/emptiness
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Interpretation
• Acute Symptoms generally seem more impulsive
and to have active/assertive component
• Temperamental Symptoms more likely to involve
fearfulness and passivity
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Remission/Recovery from BPDZanarini et al. 2010
• Remission: 1) Subjects would have DIB-R score of 7 or
less; 2) Subjects would not meet DSM-III-R criteria for
BPD for at least 2 years
• Sustained Remission: No longer meeting DSM-III-R and
DIB-R criteria for BPD for 4 years
• Recovery: 1) Subjects would achieve remission of BPD
symptoms for 2 years; 2) subjects would have at least
one emotionally sustaining relationship with close friend,
life partner, or spouse; 3) subjects would go to school or
work consistently, competently, and on a full time basis.
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Remission
• Over 10 years, 93% of subjects achieved remission
lasting at least 2 years
• Over 10 years 86% of subjects achieved a sustained
remission lasting at least 4 years
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Predictors of Remission Zanarini et al. 2006
• Younger Age upon entering study
• Absence of childhood sexual abuse
• No family history of substance use disorder
• Good vocational record
• Absence of anxious cluster personality disorder
• High Agreeableness
• Low Neuroticism
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4-Year Follow-Up 6-Year Follow-Up 8-Year Follow-Up 10-Year Follow-Up
Time to Attainment of Remission, Sustained Remission, and Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Recovery Sustained Remission Remission
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Interpretation
• Failure to achieve good psychosocial functioning due
primarily to failure in vocational, not social realm
• 98% of BPD patients not achieving good psychosocial
functioning did not do so because they were unable to
function consistently well at a full-time job or academic
program
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Neurobiology(Wilcox 2016)
• Insula and amygdala, areas that generate
emotion, are hyperactivated in tasks that involve
negative emotion
• Anterior cingulate cortex and prefrontal cortex,
areas involved in regulating emotion, are
hypoactivated in tasks that involving negative
emotion
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Treatment of Borderline Personality
Disorder
• Psychopharmacologic Treatment
• Psychosocial Treatment
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Psychopharmacologic Treatment –
Mood Stabilizers
• Lamotrigine: may reduce mood instability, anger,
and general impulsivity in BPD Reich et al. 2008
• Valproic Acid: may reduce anger in BPD Frankenburg and Zanarini 2002
• Topiramate: may reduce anger in BPD Nickel et al.
2004
• Oxcarbazapine: may reduce impulsivity in BPD Bellino et al. 2005
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Antipsychotics
• Aripiprazole: may reduce anger in BPD Nickel et al.
2006
• Olanzapine: may reduce paranoid thinking in
BPD Zanarini et al. 2001
• Quetiapine: may reduce overall severity of BPD Black et al. 2014
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Antidepressants
• Phenelzine: may reduce anger in BPD Soloff 2003
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Psychosocial Treatments for BPD
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Mentalization Based Therapy
• Transference Focused Psychotherapy
• Schema Therapy
• General Psychiatric Management
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Dialectical Behavior Therapy
(Linehan 1993)
• Skills-based treatment
• Employs the concepts of mindfulness and
dialectics
• Treatment involves 1 hour of group treatment
and 1 hour of individual skills coaching each
week
• Treatment centers on teaching 4 modules: 1)
Mindfulness; 2) Emotion Regulation; 3) Distress
Tolerance; 4) Interpersonal Effectiveness
• Duration of treatment 12-24 months
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Mentalization Based Treatment (Fonagy and Bateman 1999)
• Based on the notion that individuals with BPD suffer from
deficits in the ability to mentalize (understand the beliefs,
motives, emotions, desires, and needs) themselves and
others
• Treatment hypothesizes that mentalizing goes off line
when attachment to an emotionally significant person
disrupted
• Treatment involves helping borderline patient improve
this ability with one individual session and one group
session per week
• Treatment duration: 18 months
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Transference-Focused Psychotherapy I(Kernberg et al. 2006)
• Based on the hypothesis that borderline personality
disorder is a psychological organization in which images
of the self and others associated with negative emotions
do not integrate with such images associated with
positive emotions. In other words, individuals with BPD
cannot tolerate ambivalence or an emotionally balanced
view of themselves or others (splitting).
• Treatment involves twice weekly individual sessions with
a therapist for up to several years.
• The treatment expects that patients will reenact split
views of themselves and others in the treatment and that
therapist will help them achieve a more emotionally
integrated view of self-other
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Transference Focused Psychotherapy II
• Treatment centers on a contract between patient
and therapist
• Therapist and patient must agree on the contract
• Contract specifies on how crises will be
managed
• Contract typically specifies no between-session
contact and that patient will get him/herself to a
hospital if necessary to maintain safety
• Contract requires a certain number of hours of a
meaningful activity each week
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Transference Focused Psychotherapy III
• Contract may take several months to negotiate
and violations of contract are expected during
the early stages of treatment
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General Psychiatric Management I (Gunderson 2014)
• Based on the idea that borderline personality
disorder is caused by interpersonal
hypersensitivity
• Involves both psychodynamic principles and
targeted medication management (targeted
toward mood instability, impulsivity,
aggressiveness)
• Clinician makes clear that he expects the patient
to get better, emphasizes functioning, and
provides psychoeducation about the disorder
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General Psychiatric Management II
• Reduction of symptoms and self-control are
secondary goals required to attain the primary
goals of improved functioning in work and
relationships
• No specified intensity or duration
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Shared Features of Psychotherapies
• All psychotherapies focused in the here and now
• All psychotherapies include crisis management
for patients who are actively suicidal
• It is not clear that any one of these
psychotherapies is more effective than the
others
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Summary I
• Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a common
psychiatric disorder that includes emotional instability,
impulsivity, and interpersonal difficulties
• BPD appears to have at least some genetic component;
the role of environmental factors is less clear
• Most patients with BPD improve
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Summary II
• Although most borderline patients achieve a remission of symptoms, only about half achieve recovery from this disorder.
• Remissions achieved by borderline patients are usually stable.
• Impulsive symptoms in borderline personality disorder typically remit early in the course of the disorder.
• Affective symptoms in borderline personality disorder tend to remit more slowly, if at all.
• Most borderline patients achieve improvements in psychosocial functioning, but these improvements tend not to be stable.
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Summary III
• Difficulties in psychosocial functioning for borderline
patients are most often explained by difficulty in
achieving and sustaining competent vocational
functioning.
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Summary IV
• Several medication classes may be helpful in the
treatment of BPD, but the effects of medication are
generally not curative
• Psychotherapies remain the mainstay of treatment for
BPD
• No one psychotherapeutic approach is most effective
• Many patients with BPD improve and may achieve
remission and perhaps recovery without intensive
treatment