Is this actually PTSD? Clinicians divided over redefining borderline personality disorder | Mental health
When Professor Andrew Channen was a trainee psychiatrist in 1983, people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) who self-harmed were “vilified” and treated “horribly”. “There was a myth that somehow they were indestructible,” he says. Despite the teacher’s words, “most of them died before the training was over.” More than 40 years later, Chanen is director […]