My wife, Dr. Smith, and I are big fans of mindfulness approaches to therapy and we've included discussions of mindfulness in most of our self help books within the For Dummies series (including Borderline ...

People sometimes ask us if they should stay with a partner who has Borderline Personality Disorder. They tell us that their loved one can flip from wonderful to horrible in a split second. They wonder ...

People with Borderline Personality Disorder sometimes engage in acts of self harm. These acts of self harm are wide ranging; they're also dramatic and startling in many cases. These behaviors include: Blunt force trauma: This type ...

For decades, a considerable body of research has demonstrated that a number of psychotherapies are highly effective in the treatment of depression and anxiety disorders. Cognitive behavioral treatments have received the most attention from researchers, ...

Our last blog discussed impulse control disorders such as Tricotillomania and Kleptomania. We wrote a bit about how they can be compared and contrasted to compulsive disorders such as OCD. Both impulsions and compulsions can ...

I read a well written, moving article in the Sunday NYT magazine section about a woman with severe, unremitting depression. Although the ending offered a small bit of hope, the piece induced in me the ...

Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder (OCPD) is one of the 10 specific types of personality disorder diagnosed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV). A personality disorder is considered to be ...