For GPs: Articles of interest

Articles of interest

Borderline Personality Disorder: Patients’ or Therapists’ Crisis?

Dr Seema Sharma MBBS FRANZCP Consultant Psychiatrist, Drug & Alcohol Unit, Northside Clinic, Greenwich and Northside West Clinic, Wentworthville.
People with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder are the ones who need most nurturing and containment but they manage to burn out the professionals and partners who look after them...more >>

Treatment resistant depression: ten things NOT to do

By Dr Ralf Ilchef MBBS FRANZCP; Consultant Psychiatrist, The Northside Group; Senior Staff Specialist, RNSH; Clinical Senior Lecturer, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney
This is intended to be read as a companion piece to an earlier article on principles of treating resistant depression. On the principle of primum non nocere, it occurred to me that it might be at least as helpful to come up with a list of ten things NOT to do...more >>