Borderline Personality Disorder
- Forensic Psychology
- Mon 25th Mar 2019
Last week’s article looked at antisocial personality disorder (APD) and violence. This week’s article is about another personality that is associated with violence: borderline personality disorder (BPD). In the UK, when the two are comorbid/present together it is likely that a medical-legal diagnosis of dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD), will be made e.g. 78% of criminals undergoing treatment for DSPD in the UK, have APD+BPD, making it the most common type/form of DSPD. Whilst both those with APD, and BPD, have a tendency to become aggressive and violent, their motivations for doing so, and the way they use violence,...
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