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The McLean Screening Instrument for Borderline Personality Disorder (MSI-BPD) is a 10-question self-report screening tool used to identify individuals who may warrant further evaluation for borderline personality disorder (BPD). The questionnaire asks individuals about the presence of symptoms they experience that are characteristic of BPD.
For over 10 years, Dr. Zanarini and her colleagues at McLean have followed approximately 300 former inpatients with borderline personality disorder. [9] During the course of this study, a large majority of patients achieved remission, while over half achieved recovery—no longer meeting diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder ...
The Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder (ZAN-BPD) is a standardized, diagnostic rating scale designed to measure the severity and changes in the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) over time. [1] [2] The assessment was developed by Mary Zanarini and her colleagues at McLean Hospital and released in 2003. [3]
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive, ... according to John G. Gunderson of McLean Hospital in the United ...
John Gunder Gunderson [1] (June 20, 1942 – January 11, 2019) was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and a director at the Borderline Center at McLean Hospital. [2] [3] He is best known for identifying borderline personality disorder as a distinct psychiatric syndrome.
McLean is known widely for its treatment of adolescents, most specifically its treatment of borderline personality disorder using dialectical behavioral therapy developed by Marsha M. Linehan. [5] [6]
Kaysen attended high school at the Commonwealth School in Boston, and The Cambridge School of Weston, before being sent to McLean Hospital in 1967 to undergo psychiatric treatment for depression. While there, she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She was released after 18 months.
Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling [1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen, relating her experiences as a young woman in an American psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at Her Music. [2]