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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness marked by big problems with emotion control, impulsive acts, and unstable self-image and relationships. Many people with BPD hurt themselves or try suicide (recurrent suicidal behaviour in about 69–80% and suicide rates up to 10%). Mentalization-based treatment (MBT) was developed to…
This systematic review looked at 22 studies that tested what predicts people with personality disorders dropping out of psychotherapy. Dropout rates in the reviewed studies ranged from 10.4% to 58%. The review found consistent links between dropout and factors like younger age, substance use problems, strong emotional dysregulation, trouble tolerating…
This review looked at quantitative studies from 2015–2024 about parental narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and narcissistic traits. Eight empirical studies were included. Overall, parental narcissism was linked with poorer parent-child relationships and worse psychological outcomes for children, but results varied by the type of narcissism and the parenting context. Hostile…
