The Lifetime Course of Borderline Personality Disorder
Robert S Biskin, MDCM1 1 Staff Psychiatrist, Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec; Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec. Correspondence: Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, 4333 Côte-Ste-Catherine Road, Montreal, QC H3T 1E4; robert.biskin@mcgill.ca. Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has historically been seen as a lifelong, highly disabling disorder. Research during the past 2 decades has challenged this assumption. This paper reviews the course of BPD throughout life, including…
