Personality Disorders

Follow the links below to find information on personality disorders and support services for sufferers. 

Reviewed January 2011

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Title:   Borderline personality disorder
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of a group of psychiatric conditions known as 'personality disorders'. People with BPD have difficulty relating to other people. With treatment, the symptoms of BPD can be managed better, reduced or even eliminated.
Date:   Feb 2011
Title:   Dissociation and dissociative disorders
Publisher:   Better Health Channel
Description:   Dissociation is a mental process where a person disconnects from their thoughts, feelings, memories or sense of identity. Dissociative disorders include dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, depersonalisation disorder and dissociative identity disorder.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Borderline personality disorder
Publisher:   SANE Australia
Description:   Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is the name given to one of a group of psychiatric conditions called 'personality disorder'. BPD is characterised by distressing emotional states, difficulty in relating to other people, and self-harming behaviour.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Antisocial personality disorder is a condition that leads to persistent rule-breaking, criminality, and drug or alcohol misuse. It causes a great deal of hardship for the person concerned, as well as for the person's immediate family and society in ge...
Date:   Dec 2009
Title:   Personality disorders
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of personality disorder by professional health specialists.
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Dissociative disorders
Publisher:   Virtual Medical Centre.com
Description:   Information on the symptoms, treatment and diagnosis of dissociative disorders written by professional medical specialists.
Date:   Aug 2008
Title:   Community mental health teams (CMHTs) for people with severe mental illnesses and disordered personality
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Since the 1950s there has been a trend to close institutions of care for people who are mentally unwell. In addition, government policy has sought to reduce the number of hospital beds available in favour of care being provided in the community to enabl...
Date:   May 2007
Title:   What is a personality disorder?
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This brochure talks about personality disorders, outlining the main types, possible causes, treatment options, and where to go for help.
Date:   May 2007
Title:   Borderline personality disorder - myDr.com.au
Publisher:   myDr
Description:   Borderline personality disorder is the name given to one of a group of psychiatric conditions called personality disorders.
Date:   Jan 2007

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