Personality Disorder Special Interest Group

Chair: Dr Paul Matthews                                                                          Vice-chair: Dr Molly Bredin

Aims

  • To maintain a peer group / network of college members interested in the aetiology, treatment and management of personality disorders in adults and emergent personality disorders in adolescents
  • To promote learning and information sharing on the management of personality disorders
  • To help support educational and training initiatives for clinicians working with personality disorders
  • To advocate for better service provision for adults with a personality disorder or emergent personality disorders amongst adolescents

To view the Terms of Reference, click here

Dates of upcoming meetings in 2023

  • Friday, 10th March
  • Friday, 16th June
  • Friday, 29th September
  • Friday, 1st December

Meetings take place at 1.30pm online via zoom.

College Faculty/SIG and committee meetings can garner 1 internal or external CPD credit per meeting up to a maximum of 10 credits per PCS year.

To contact the group

To contact the group or if you would like to join, please email Helen Murray, hmurray@irishpsychiatry.ie or call (01) 6618450.

Publications of Interest

Parenting and Personality Disorder Clinical and Child Protection Implications – 2015 British Journal of Psychiatry Advances Vol 21 Issue 1

The Nature of Personality Disorder – 2012 British Journal of Psychiatry Advances Vol 18 Issue 3

Epistemic Petrification and the Restoration of Epistemic Trust: A New Conceptualization of Borderline Personality Disorder and its Psychosocial Treatment– 2015 Journal of Personality Disorders, 29(5), 575-609

Borderline Personality Disorder: Recognition and Management – 2009 NICE Guidelines nice.org.uk/guidance/cg78

Personality disorder: No longer a diagnosis of exclusion – Policy implementation guidance for the development of services for people with personality disorder. National Institute for Mental Health in England, 2003.

https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/personality-disorder/the-state-of-personality-disorder-services-in-england/

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Borderline Personality Disorder 2012 Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council

Clinical Practice Guideline for the Management of Borderline Personality Disorder: Appendices 2012 Australian Government National Health and Medical Research Council

A formulated care plan approach to caring for people with borderline personality disorder in a community mental health service setting – June 1997 – Clinical Psychology Forum 104

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT): a therapy in a medium secure hospital for a mentally disordered offender with a personality disorder – The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Volume 10, Issue 3 – November 2008

Cognitive analytic therapy for offenders The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry Volume 9, No 3, December 1998, 629 – 642

Early intervention for adolescents with borderline personality disorder: quasi-experimental comparison with treatment as usual – 2009 The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Therapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy Compared International Review of Psychiatry, February 2007; 19 (1): 51-62

The HYPE Clinic: An Early Intervention Service for Borderline Personality Disorder Journal of Psychiatric Practice Volume 15, No 3