Dissociation and borderline personality disorder: An update for clinicians

Dissociation occurs in about two thirds of people with borderline personality disorder (BPD) but is still not well understood by clinicians. In the past decade, however, research has used new measures of dissociation that provide some of the detail that clinicians need to understand and treat the dissociative symptoms of patients with BPD. In particular, this review examines BPD’s comorbidity with the dissociative disorders, the neurobiology of …