News from ESSPD President
Babette Renneberg, PhD
ESSPD President
Dear colleagues, friends and ESSPD members,
We are very happy to invite you to our next congress, the 6th International Congress on Borderline Personality Disorder and Allied Disorders to be held in Antwerp, Belgium from October 10-12 2022.
The overarching theme of our conference is:
“Change for a better future: Perspectives beyond symptoms“
Workshop information
Our next Workshop Conference will be organized as a virtual event with on-line participation of speakers and participants
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.