Tag: Stigma

  • 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,…

  • A Mind Media Award winner – thanks to you

    This is a  quick post just to say a huge thank you to anyone who nominated this blog for the Mark Hanson digital media award at the 2013 Mind Media Awards. When the email came to say I’d been shortlisted I was astonished because I hadn’t known I had even been nominated in the first…