Category: BPD

  • Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

    The concept of borderline personality disorder (BPD) is thought to have first emerged in the 1930s via the work of Adolph Stern and to have been formally consolidated via the 3rd edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM; APA, 1980). Contemporary diagnostic criteria as stated in the fifth edition of the DSM (DSM-5; APA,…