Cognitive and interpersonal factors in borderline personality disorder

Three findings emerged from the past year on cognitive and interpersonal factors associated with borderline personality disorder. Social perceptions and perhaps self-criticism distinguish depression of patients with borderline personality disorder from those with affective disorders without borderline personality disorder. Patients with borderline personality disorder report more ongoing childhood sexual abuse involving multiple perpetrators and penetration. Dialectical behavior therapy produced modest improvement in interpersonal functioning of women with borderline personality disorder.