Abstract Changes in attachment organization and reflective function (RF) were assessed as
putative mechanisms of change in 1 of 3 year-long psychotherapy treatments for patients …

Background: Psychopathology researchers and theorists have begun to understand
fundamental aspects of borderline personality disorder (BPD) such as unstable and intense …

With the introduction in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth
Edition (DSM-5) of a hybrid system of personality disorder assessment, the ability to assess …

The authors review clinical and conceptual errors that contribute to false attributions of
malingering in forensic evaluations. Unlike the mental disorders, malingering is not defined by a …

Background The development of mindfulness parenting programs in recent years offers a
promising direction for targeting parental emotional dysregulation in families of children with …

Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) is an empirically supported treatment for borderline
personality disorder (BPD) that improves functioning via targeting representations of self …

The impact of borderline personality pathology on facial emotion recognition has been in
dispute; with impaired, comparable, and enhanced accuracy found in high borderline …

Rejection sensitivity (RS) was evaluated as a moderator of the relationship between perceptions
of others and interpersonal behavior over the course of a week. Participants (n = 240) …

… He presented for individual treatment with one of us (Kevin B. Meehan, the “I” in what follows)
with a then-undiagnosed attention disorder that led to significant behavioral problems and …

Individuals high in rejection sensitivity (RS) are at risk for experiencing high levels of
interpersonal distress, yet little is known about the interpersonal profiles associated with RS. This …