Borderline Personality Disorder: A Literature Review

This article researched particularly on borderline personality disorder, which the aim is to increase the understanding towards the particular disorder. Klaus Lieb, Mary C Zanarini, Christian Schmahl, Marsha M Linehan and Martin Bohus wrote this particular article in order to raise awareness in the public about borderline personality disorder. Klaus Lieb is associated with the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Freiburg Medical School while Mary C Zanarini is associated with McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Belmont. Christian Schmahl and Martin Bohus are allied with the Department of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapeutical Medicine at University of Heidelberg. Lastly, Marsha M Linehan is part of the Department of Psychology from University of Washington, Seattle. The purpose of this research article is to sheds light to the issue of borderline personality disorder. By reading this article, a detailed understanding about borderline personality disorder can be obtained. This article begins with a …show more content…
The authors discussed about the prevalence occurrence of borderline personality disorder in United States of America. The prevalence occurrence is around 11% among those in the age of 9 to 19 and 7 to 8% among those in the age of 11 to 21 years old (Lieb, Zanarini, Schmahl, Linehan & Bohus, 2004). This shows that the borderline personality disorder is more common among young adults and adolescents. Nevertheless, the data is unable to generalize to other population as the data only represents those from United States of America. Individuals from different social and background experience different things from each other. Thus, what is experienced in United States of America may differ in other countries and this decrease the generality of the data provided by the authors about the prevalence occurrence of borderline personality