Info/updates on personality disorders

[jetskiters]

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Hey everybody! 🙂

I am a Psychology major in my 3rd year of undergrad studies. I'm working on this project on personality disorders.

Since you guys are now working in the field or are pursuing graduate studies, I was wondering if you could point me to articles, sites, books, journals, interviews, or any material (even coming from you) focusing on new findings, theories, treatments, therapies, approaches, strategies, and ideas about all personality disorders. The book we're using was published in early 2004 so any updates regarding PDs after that would really be useful.

Also, if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to get a little background info about the field you're working in (e.g. are you in the academe or in private practice or in a hospital, etc.) just so I could get a better understanding of the perspective from which you view PDs.

I also posted a thread on this in the Clinical Psych section.

Thanks a lot in advance! 🙂

 

[Anasazi23]

Fun fact: People with PDs have more medical illnesses.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16721176&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum

 

[Anasazi23]

Pain response and threshold in borderline PD. Study involved fMRI to measure blood oxygen changes in response to heat stimulus.

CONCLUSION: The interaction between increased pain-induced response in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and deactivation in the anterior cingulate and the amygdala is associated with an antinociceptive mechanism in patients with BPD.

 

[jetskiters]

Pain response and threshold in borderline PD. Study involved fMRI to measure blood oxygen changes in response to heat stimulus.

thanks a lot! i'll look into this stuff in a while.


any more thoughts on PDs guys?