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Ethics and Mental Health Journalism: The Difficult Case of Borderline Personality Disorder
November 18, 2013 By Dominic Sisti Emotions run high in interviews with clinicians about patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Many doctors are not comfortable treating patients with BPD. Some are even openly hostile and admit they ‘turf’ or avoid patients with BPD because they find them too exhausting or…
AP Stylebook Adds Entry on Mental Illness
March 8, 2013 The Associated Press has added a new entry on mental illness to its Stylebook. This is a wonderful step forward for mental health reporting. The entry already appears in the online version and will appear in the next print edition, published this spring. Read the full entry…