Borderline Personality Disorder: Origins, Treatments, Recovery – October 2, 2004 St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Borderline Personality Disorder: Origins, Treatments, Recovery

October 2, 2004
St. Joseph’s Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada


Sponsored by:

The National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
in partnership with NARSAD
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
WiseMind (funded in part by the Ontario Trillium Foundation)

Endorsed by:

Arthur Sommer Rosenberg Chair in Suicides Unit,
Mental Health Services, St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario

Conference Program

Welcome

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD
President NEABPD

What is it? Overview of Borderline Personality Disorder

Joel Paris, MD
McGill University

Risk of suicidal behaviour

Paul S. Links, MD
St. Michael’s Hospital

What are we doing to treat it? Treatment: Therapy / Dialectical Behavior

Shelley McMain, PhD
The Center for Addiction and Mental Health

What are we doing to treat it? Medication

Kenneth R. Silk, MD
University of Michigan

How do we live with it? Family and Consumer Perspectives Panel

Perry D. Hoffman, PhD; Rita Mohan, PHN, MA;
Nicola Whipp, BA; Susan Roach, MSW; Patricia
Woodward, MAT 

What is new in research?

Kenneth Levy, PhD
City University of New York

Hope: The community perspective

Stephen Webb, MD
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
Debra E. Coates
Executive Director, WiseMind
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