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The ‘Self' and Borderline Personality Disorder: Conceptual and Clinical Considerations
Some concept of self has been used by many, although not all, researchers and clinicians as an ‘organising construct' for borderline personality disorder (BPD). There is considerable variation in this usage and how clearly researchers have defined the self. Given this diversity, and that ‘self' is often used interchangeably with parallel concepts (e.g. psyche, brain-mind, ‘person') or with features of self (e.g. self-awareness, identity), unqualified use of the term is problematic. This is further complicated by the heterogeneity and ‘comorbidity' of BPD and the limitations of syndromally based psychiatric nosology. Still, BPD remains in current classification systems and can be reliably diagnosed. A considerable body of research on self and BPD has accrued, including a recent profusion and confluence of neuroscientific and sociopsychological findings. These have generated supporting evidence for a supra-ordinate, functionally constituted entity of the self ranging over multiple, interacting levels from an unconscious, ‘core' self, through to a reflective, phenotypic, ‘idiographic' and relational self constituted by interpersonal and sociocultural experience. Important insights have been generated regarding emotional and social-cognitive dysregulation, disorder of self-awareness, relationality, identity, and coherence and continuity of the self. Many of these are shared by various trauma-related, dissociative disorders. A construct of the self could be useful as an explanatory principle in BPD, which could be construed as a ‘self-state' (and relational) disorder, as opposed to a less severe disorder of aspects of the self (e.g. mood or memory). We offer a tentative description of ‘Self' in this context, noting that any such construct will require a clear definition and to be evaluable.
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Women Meet To Create An Aids 2016 Platform At Pan-African Women's Reproductive Summit
\"Women have the strong voice, women have the skills, women have the experience to implement programs,\" said Linda Mafu, the head of civil society and political advocacy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. \"But somehow women are project officers, women are volunteers and when the CEO position comes, women become assistant program managers, and who's going to implement that program? It's the woman. Who's going to then report on that program so that the CEO can go and report somewhere else? It's the woman. So in this world women's conference, all of you have a response to go to the International AIDS Conference and make sure that whatever came here gets to that agenda.\"
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Women Meet to Create AIDS Platform at Summit
\"It's not enough to only talk about men who have sex with men, but instead, men of African descent who have sex 'with men,\" she said. \"Among women, it's Black women who are still most impacted.\" \"Women have the strong voice, women have the skills, women have the experience to implement programs,\" said Linda Mafu, the head of civil society and political advocacy at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. ' ' But somehow women are project officers, women are volunteers and when the CEO position comes, women become assistant program managers, and who's going to implement that program? It's the woman. Who's going to then report on that program so that the CEO can go and report somewhere else? It's the woman. So in this world women's conference, all of you have a response to go to the International AIDS Conference and make sure that whatever came here gets to that agenda.\"
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Obamacare - 6 ways it can help end HIV/AIDS epidemic in U.S
Because the nation's HIV/AIDS epidemic is unfolding disproportionately in black communities, black America has the most to gain by ending it. Getting there requires that more HIV-positive people are diagnosed (currently, almost 20 percent of black people with HIV don't know it) and then linked to care, retained in care and prescribed HIV-fighting medications (called anti-retrovirals) - and, ultimately, that they get their virus under control (viral suppression), a sequence called the HIV care continuum, or HIV treatment cascade. Each step along the HIV care continuum involves going to the doctor. But while black people make up 13 percent of the population, 19 percent of us don't have health insurance, and scores of Americans - of all backgrounds - have health insurance policies that don't offer prescription coverage or aren't worth the paper they're printed on. This remains a serious problem, considering that HIV meds can easily cost upward of $12,000 per year.
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The Management and Treatment of Personality-Disordered Patients
The clinical management of patients with personality disorders is seldom satisfactory. It is suggested that the bewilderment provoked and experienced by these patients can be reduced by a careful analysis of their shifting states of mind. The construction of diagrams tracing such shifts is helpful to both patients and clinicians. Illustrative case histories are presented.
Journal Article
The management and treatment of personality-disordered patients. The use of sequential diagrammatic reformulation
The clinical management of patients with personality disorders is seldom satisfactory. It is suggested that the bewilderment provoked and experienced by these patients can be reduced by a careful analysis of their shifting states of mind. The construction of diagrams tracing such shifts is helpful to both patients and clinicians. Illustrative case histories are presented.
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FIGHTING FIBROIDS
For six weeks she saw an acupuncturist, who improved her cycle somewhat but then sent her back to the doctor to find out if she had uterine fibroids, benign knots of muscle tissue that can grow just within, Ä, - on or outside the uterus and normally occur during a woman's childbearing years. Since she had butted heads with her first gynecologist, Tasha found a new one, who discovered a fibroid two centimeters long inside her uterus. \"If you look at fibroids compared with other diseases, the degree to which fibroids affect your entire life is astounding,\" says Elizabeth Stewart, M.D., the study's lead author and chair of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at Mayo Clinic and Mayo Medical School. [...]Stress is not known to cause fibroids, but fibroids cause stress,\" says Birgit Rakel, M.D., director of women's health at Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine in Philadelphia.
Magazine Article
Healthy Side Up
One of my favorite childhood memories is being awakened on Saturday mornings by the aroma of bacon. My siblings and I would rush to the kitchen table to make sure we were given equal servings: two slices of pork bacon --three if we...
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