Links

This is a non-exhaustive list of available resources. We’re hoping to create another platform to host a range of research in the future. If you do feel we’re missing some vital resources, please do contact us!

National Personality Disorder Programme

Personality and Mental Health

Personality Disorder Institute

MIND

The Royal College of Psychiatrists

European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders

SPR (UK) – Society for Psychotherapy Research

ATC – Association of Therapeutic Communities

Resources from a Range of Perspectives

Ministry of Justice Guide to working with people with ‘Personality Disorder’ (2015)

Meeting the Challenge, Making a Difference – Guide to working with people diagnosed with personality disorder (2014)

Trauma Informed Mental Healthcare - What is it and how can we further its development? (2016)

Consensus Statement on Personality Disorder – Shining Lights in Dark Corners of People’s Lives (2017)

Safer Care for Patients with Personality Disorder (2018)

Death By A Thousand Cuts: Report into the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust “BPD+” Protocol (2022)

The Patients Psychiatrists Dislike (1988)

A critique of the inclusion of BPD in ICD 11

Learning the lessons: a multimethod evaluation of dedicated community-based services for people with personality disorder (2007)

How Not To Get a Diagnosis of Personality Disorder

The Not So Nice Guidelines for Borderline Personality Disorder

The changes to the “personality disorder” diagnosis in ICD 11

CPTSD Vs BPD opinion 1

CPTSD Vs BPD opinion 2

Attitudes towards patients with a diagnosis of ‘borderline personality disorder’: Social rejection and dangerousness (2003) Testimonial Injustice (2018)

Forensic Reports

The Corston Report – Review of vulnerable women in the criminal justice system

User-Led Organisations

National Survivor User Network

Scottish Recovery Network

Survivor Researcher Network

Implementing Recovery through Organisational Change (ImROC)

Recovery College Online

Asylum Magazine

National Voices

Recovery in the Bin

Stop SIM UK

Mad Studies UK

Katie's SHINE Project

Beyond Personality Differences (BPD-NI) – Creativity Against Stigma (website coming soon!)

Specific Guidance

Royal College of Psychiatrists Position Statement: Services for people diagnosable with personality disorder (2020)

Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland College Report CR214 (2018) Raising awareness

Guidelines Self-harm: assessment, management and preventing reoccurrence (2022)

Borderline personality disorder: recognition and management

Clinical guideline [CG78]

Antisocial personality disorder: prevention and management

Clinical guideline [CG77]

Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland (2018) Living with Borderline Personality Disorder

Healthcare Improvement Scotland (2023) Personality Disorder Improvement Programme Phase 1 Final Report

The Northern Ireland Personality Disorder Strategy (2010)

Northern Ireland Personality Disorder Services: Rapid Review(2020)

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland - Development of Services for Treatment of Personality Disorder in Adult Mental Health Services: Position Paper (2020)

Publications

Out Of Area Report

Mental Health Review Journal

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