This program is designed to assess the longitudinal course of borderline personality disorder. Currently, over 350 inpatients between the ages of 18 to 35 have been assessed at baseline. Two year follow-up interviews are currently being conducted. These interviews include social and vocational functioning, treatment during follow-up period, Axis I and II phenomenology, stressful and traumatic life events, and pathways to health. Amy E. Sickel, Associate Director.
Openings are available for departmental trainees.
Childhood experience of borderline patients. Cognitive features of borderline personality disorder. Am J Psychiatry. Discriminating borderline personality disorder from other Axis II disorders. Am J Psychiatry.