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Understanding Major Depression With Borderline Personality Disorder?
The NIAAA study begins to spread out and spur on new views of the findings regarding BPD. Here is a study about Major Depressive Disorder and BPD. Can Epidemiology Translate Into Understanding Major Depression With Borderline Personality Disorder? Myrna M. Weissman, Ph.D. Epidemiologic surveys have mapped the terrain of psychiatric disorders. Personality disorders have bedeviled the clinician’s practice. Rarely have these two been rearranged in a meaningful clinical dialogue. Using the largest psychiatric epidemiologic survey ever, the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcoholism and Related Conditions, and among the few to venture into axis II disorders, Skodol et al. (1), in this issue of the Journal, give a community-based national view…