The ESSPD is saddened by the violence and the attacks in several regions of the world. Our thoughts go to the regions of the world in need of peace.
News from ESSPD President
Ueli Kramer, PhD
ESSPD President
September 2024
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is my pleasure and honor to welcome you to the 7th congress of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, in Antwerp (Belgium) on “Treating Personality Pathology in a Time of Change”.
Treatment of personality pathology has changed over the past generations of researchers and clinicians. Treatment contexts present challenges and opportunities due to evolving diagnostic classifications, emerging needs in specific populations – including youth and families –, constraints related to dissemination of good practice principles across the globe, the increased use of technology to treat clients, and the more active – and warmly welcomed – involvement of users and carers in the treatment. Change as context affects the treatment delivered to our clients, while change in context transforms the client’s presenting problem into unchartered territory of self-knowledge, nourishing interpersonal relationships and a new story of a lifetime.
ESSPD Antwerp 2024 is: Five plenary sessions, six CME courses, four semi-plenary sessions, seven awards for the best work in our field, over 50 research symposia, over 30 individual paper presentations, over 80 poster presentations: three days packed with knowledge on personality disorders!
The realization of this year’s ESSPD congress in Antwerp has been an endeavour which truly took a whole village over many months of preparation. I am honored to express my warmest gratitude to the “village”, at ESSPD and our loyal and dedicated partner at Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum (UPC) Duffel, Ann Berens. Particular thanks goes to Jasper Delanoy at UPC Duffel, Brad Smith at meetingsavvy, the ESSPD secretary Nicola Harding, and the entire Social Media and Science Communications Committee of the ESSPD. I thank the ESSPD board and advisory board, the Antwerp 2024 Scientific Committee, the Antwerp Congress Organizing Committee, the Antwerp Bluepoint and all partners and services who work together to welcome you all under excellent conditions. I express my special gratitude to our 30 ESSPD Antwerp 2024 volunteers who have put numerous hours into making things work, to welcome us all to Antwerp 2024.
Welcome to ESSPD Antwerp 2024!
Ueli Kramer, PhD
ESSPD President
ESSPD Antwerp 2024 is proudly presented to you with the kind collaboration of UPC Duffel.
Dear colleagues, friends and ESSPD members,
We are happy to invite you to watch interviews and the presidential discussion from our 6th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders which was held online from 10–12 October 2022.
The overarching theme of the conference was:
“Change for a better future: Perspectives beyond symptoms“
Babette Renneberg, PhD
ESSPD Past President
Scientific Journal
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotional Dysregulation edited by Martin Bohus, Christian Schmahl and John M. Oldham is the official journal of the ESSPD. The open access journal focuses on the psychological, social, and neurobiological aspects of emotion dysregulation. It covers the whole range of BPD research including epidemiology, phenomenology, pathophysiology, psychological, and pharmacological treatment, neurobiology, genetics, and animal models of BPD. The journal impact factor for 2023 is 4,0. The ESSPD donates three Waivers for Article Processing Charges (APC) primarily to members from Eastern European countries.
ESSPD Announcements
Call for Papers: Feeling close to others? Social cognitive mechanisms of intimacy in personality disorders
Journal: Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation
Submission deadline: June 1, 2025
Editors: Chiara De Panfilis, Zsolt Unoka, Stefanie Lis (Editorial)
For questions related to the call for papers email Chiara De Panfilis (chiara.depanfilis@unipr.it)
Call for Papers: Dimensional constructs of personality disorders. Implications for psychotherapy integration
Journal: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration
Submission deadline: December 31, 2024
Questions related to the call for papers, email Joost Hutsebaut, PhD, Carla Sharp, PhD, or Ueli Kramer, PhD.
ESSPD Research Update
The quarterly newsletter is focused upon the theme of borderline personality disorder, physical health, morbidity and mortality as well as BPD, trauma and PTSD, and contains a review of the five most innovative contributions to the literature in the recent months. The corresponding scientific writer is Sophie Liljedahl, PhD.
Deaths by suicide and other causes among patients with borderline personality disorder and personality-disordered comparison subjects over 24 years of prospective follow-up
Borderline personality disorder and self-directed violence in a sample of suicidal army soldiers
The ESSPD
Stimulates and supports scholarship, clinical experience, international collaboration and communication of research on all aspects of personality disorders including epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis and assessment, course and treatment in Europe.
Society with a European signature which will address the specific needs of the European personality disorder field and actively will expand it to countries in which it is less developed.
Actively seeks contact and cooperation with family and users organizations and is open to professionals who are actively involved or interested in the study, assessment and treatment of personality disorders.
Closely cooperates with the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, ISSPD.