Part III  by Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison, 2007 p. 194 Lack of Data and Insufficient Knowledge of Developmental issues. A further challenge to diagnosing BP in children is the limited utility of applying to this population features of adult BP symptoms and course. diagnostic confusion about how to …

Part II  by Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison, 2007 p. 190 Depressive Features   For many individuals bipolar disorder emerges in the form of depressive episodes in childhood. (Geller, Lish 1994). Although depression in children may be readily diagnoses using adult criteria, the majority of such cases probably go undetected …

Part I This excerpt is taken from the 2nd addition, 2007 two volume, 1000-page (with additional appendix and references) Manic-Depressive Illness – Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression by Frederick Goodwin and Kay Redfield Jamison.  (Still available on Amazon or your nearest medical school library) This reference text is an exhaustive …

Hagop Akiskal (1944-2021) was an international giant of theory, research and clinical practice in Psychiatry during his 60-year career. He had collaborators on most continents and published hundreds of papers, dozens book chapters and was the originator and editor in chief for the Journal of Affective Disorders. Below is a …

Empirical criteria that differentiating between Bipolar Illness and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD): Using sexual trauma, self-cutting/self-harm and soft psychotic symptoms Multiple studies (see below) show that approximately two thirds of those diagnosed with BPD have a history of sexual trauma, as compared to 25-30% of those diagnosed with Bipolar, and …

How and when did “Borderline Personality” get into the DSM?” The term “borderline personality” was first proposed in the United States by psychoanalyst Adolph Stern in 1938, an early proponent of Freudian psychoanalytic theory in this country followed by psychoanalyst Richard Knight who further promoted the concept. They described a …