VALERIE PORR - Stigma: When All Else Fails (and Treaters Often Do), Blame the Patient!

VALERIE PORR - The Prevalence and Negative Impact of Misdiagnosis

MARSHA LINEHAN - Borderline Personality Disorder & Stigma

MARSHA LINEHAN - Stigma & Suicidality

MARSHA LINEHAN - Why So Few Talented Therapists Treat Clients with Challenging Disorders

MARSHA LINEHAN - The Need for a Relationship of Equality Between Therapist and Client

MARSHA LINEHAN - The Purpose of Diagnosis: Treatment

OTTO KERNBERG - Changing Definitions of Mental Illness

MARY ZANARINI - A Patient's Right to Be Informed They Have a BPD Diagnosis

MARY ZANARINI - The Unjustified Nature of BPD's Stigma (It Has a Good Prognosis, After All)

MARY ZANARINI - Ironclad Shrink

MARY ZANARINI - One Finding of Her Study: BPD is a Good Prognosis Diagnosis

MARY ZANARINI - Her Motivations for Working with the BPD Population

MARY ZANARINI - Stigma: It's in the Eye of the Beholder

MARY ZANARINI - Psychoeducation

MARY ZANARINI - BPD Therapists: Born to Treat

MARY ZANARINI - Why She Avoided the Term "Borderline" in Naming Her Laboratory

MARY ZANARINI - Rates of Remission in BPD Patients

JOHN GUNDERSON - Why Mental Health Professionals Stigmatize BPD

Misdiagnosis & Medicating of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) - JOHN GUNDERSON

BPD: What Every Psychiatrist Should Know - JOHN GUNDERSON

JOHN GUNDERSON - Causes for Stigma Surrounding the BPD Diagnosis

REBBIE - Finding Her Way to the Right Diagnosis

REBBIE - Lost Time: Doctors Being "Un-Hippocratic"

REBBIE - I've Got It Too

KRASNER - Passion and Zest for Helping People (And Lack Thereof)

KRASNER - BPD Treaters Being Penalized with Higher Malpractice Insurance Premiums

KRASNER - Stigma Upon Stigma (And the Fearful Physicians)

KRASNER - Moving Towards a Biopsychosocial Model (Also: No Longer Keeping Patients in Chains)

KRASNER - Attempting to Measure Suicide

ANTONIA NEW - Stigma & Delayed Diagnosis

ANTONIA NEW - When a Name Sounds Like an Insult: Renaming BPD and Personality Disorders in General

REGINA - Positive Impact of Receiving Her Diagnosis

REGINA - A Mixed Blessing: How Your Diagnosis Gets Used Against You

REGINA - Cutting & Burning

BARBARA - How She Came to Be Diagnosed

BARBARA - Her Reasons for Not Wanting to Be Labeled "Borderline"

BARBARA - The Big Secret Hiding Your BPD Diagnosis

BARBARA - Suicide

SID - Being Born Female

SID - Stigma & Why He's Doing the Interview

SID - Being Rejected by His Parents

SID - Anti-Stigma Activism

SID - His Many Layers of Otherness

TAHARAH - Wanting to Express Her Everyday Challenges

LIZ - Her Mother's Inability to Accept the BPD Diagnosis

LIZZY - When Her Sister Got the BPD Diagnosis