The multiple/borderline link

[drleanne.livejournal.com]

Here is a link to pages in a book called Borderline Personality Disorder, etiology and treatment that suggests a link btween BPD and MPD, tho this study is suggesting that the borderline did not have the full dissociative capacity to split which i admit iss different than what i presented earlier.

Google Book Link

Now the stuff that i was talking about earlier may have been declared defunct. I don't know. Thats cool if it is and i am sorry that I didn't have the most current information. And yes, I admit i may have over generalized when I said most.

This topic has been talked about with a psychologist friend of mine, and when I get together with her again I'll ask for more current journal entries and whatnot.

         

Comments

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Thank you for locating the book. I'd be interested in hearing what your friend has to say.

Borderline personality disorder has been a trashcan diagnosis for quite a long time -- that is, it is used as a conditional diagnosis so that a client can get insurance to pay for sessions while working with the therapist to uncover what is really wrong. I'm not against trashcan diagnoses per se, but this practise does lead to a number of misunderstandings, espcially as the definition of what BPD is has changed over the years.

Some professionals in the wake of the overdiagnosis scandal claimed that clients who actually had BPD had been diagnosed with MPD, perhaps in an honest mistake, perhaps for the prestige (MPD being more glamorous), perhaps for the insurance money (MPD being more lucrative). These are some of the reasons I'm suspicious of attempts to link the two. There isn't enough evidence for much of anything in psychology, and this sounds like another attempt at a grand unified theory of everything -- in this case, in terms of dissociation, a la Marlene Steinberg.

I wonder could you enclose that long URL within anchor tags and give it a briefer name. "Quote from Borderline Personality Disorder, Etiology and Treatment" would be fine.

[hazelwindows.livejournal.com]

Borderline personality disorder has been a trashcan diagnosis for quite a long time -- that is, it is used as a conditional diagnosis so that a client can get insurance to pay for sessions while working with the therapist to uncover what is really wrong.

So *that's* why that one lady tried to explain she wanted to place me in that category in her report, while hastening to assure me that this was not her actual evaluation of my personality. After reading a little on the tempers attributed to some BPD cases, I had wondered if maybe she just hadnt wanted to tell me that this was what she really thought of me in case I suddenly "lashed out" and turned against her or something.
"Trashcan diagnosis" sounds right to me, I have asked and asked and the definition remains vague and changing depending on who or where or when the facts are being gathered from, in my experience.