The History of Borderline Personality Disorder

1938 - Adolph Stern lists most of the diagnosis criteria and calls the group of people affected " the borderline group"

Jul 13, 1938

1943 - Robert Knight introduces ego psychology and describes patients as being in "borderline states"

Jul 13, 1940

1941 - George Zilboarg describes the disorder as a mid version of schizophrenia

Jul 13, 1941

1942 - Helene Deutsch defines a type of people dependent on others personalities as having "as if personality "

Jul 13, 1942

1968 - Roy Gunderson does the first research on borderline personality disorder

Jul 13, 1968

1975 - John Gunderson publishes research to help diagnose borderline personality disorder

Jul 13, 1975

1967 - Otto Kernberg defines boundaries between psychotic and neurotic, and he places "borderline personality" in the middle

Jul 13, 1976

1980 - Borderline Personality Disorder is included in the DSM-III

Jul 13, 1980

1993 - Marsha Linehan introduces dialectal behavior therapy (DBT) as an effective treatment

Jul 13, 1993

1994 - DSM- IV is published, defining the symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder required for diagnosis

Jul 13, 1994

2008 - The U.S House of Representatives declares May as the National Borderline Personality Disorder awareness month

Jul 13, 2008

Current - Research continues to advance the field

Jul 13, 2015