News from ESSPD President
Ueli Kramer, PhD
ESSPD President
Welcome to ESSPD Antwerp 2024
Dear members of the ESSPD, dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is my great honor to inform you about the upcoming 7th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD), on the topic of
“Treating Personality Pathology in a Time of Change”.
We will meet in person in Antwerp (Belgium), from Monday, September 23rd until Wednesday, September 25th, 2024.
Treatment of personality pathology has changed radically 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 welcomed involvement of users and carers in the treatment. Of course, the world could not have changed more since we last met in Sitges (Spain). The 7th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders will take stock of these changes, along with many others our field is currently experiencing. ESSPD Antwerp 2024 promises to deliver a lively cutting-edge scientific program, supported by the thought-provoking presence and guidance of master clinicians and one-to-one meet-ups between leaders of the field.
Dear colleagues and friends, we invite you to put these dates firmly in your calendar and join us in Antwerp. Make sure to be part of it!
I am already looking forward to seeing you in Antwerp in September 2024!
Ueli Kramer
President ESSPD
Dear colleagues, friends and ESSPD members,
We are happy to invite you to watch interviews and the presidential discussion from our last congress, the 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
ESSPD webinar
Those that didn’t have the chance to attend the webinar “The ICD-11 Classification of Personality Disorders – Challenges and Opportunities” can now purchase access to the recording.
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
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 recently received an impact factor of 2.067. The ESSPD donates three Waivers for Article Processing Charges (APC) primarily to members from Eastern European countries.