British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD) Blog Posts

• Mentalisation-based therapy for anti-social personality disorder shows promise in rare prison-based trial

  21 May 2025

  • Tom Stephenson
  • and Danny Whiting

  
• How can you compare data about mental health and mental capacity law across borders? #BIGSPD24

  17 Apr 2024

  • Alex Ruck Keene

  
• The Truth Project: survivor experiences of sharing their testimonies following childhood sexual abuse

  17 Aug 2023

  • Kirsten Barnicot

  
• Does a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder help or harm? #BIGSPD23

  12 Jun 2023

  • David Foreman
  • and Keir Harding

  
• What’s the evidence for community interventions for ‘personality disorder’ (or complex emotional needs)? Not great

  24 Feb 2023

  • Keir Harding
  • and Hollie Berrigan

  
• “I’m not into labels”: clinician and service user perspectives on ‘personality disorder’

  12 Oct 2022

  • Siobhan D’Almeida

  
• Complex PTSD: 3 recent reviews yield clues about what helps #BIGSPD22

  10 May 2022

  • Kirsten Barnicot

  
• Hidden from the world: Out of area hospital placements for people diagnosed with personality disorder #NoOOA

  18 Jan 2022

  • Andy Bell

  
• Brief interventions for people diagnosed with a personality disorder #BIGSPD21

  15 Jun 2021

  • Kirsten Barnicot

  
• Personality disorder: new position statement from the Royal College of Psychiatrists

  31 Jan 2020

  • Keir Harding