A model of psychosocial care for severe personality disorder

Article Abstract:

Many mental health professionals in the UK are unaware of how to deal with patients suffering from severe personality disorder. However, it is actually possible to treat this condition. At Cassel Hospital in Surrey, England, the Cassel Outreach Nursing Service offers six months' inpatient treatment for patients with severe personality disorder. This treatment is followed by six months' outreach nursing and a year of group psychotherapy twice a week. Psychoanalytical concepts are used to help the patient make sense of a range of feelings and to see the connection between past experiences and present behaviour.

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When does personality disorder become enduring mental illness?

Article Abstract:

A mental health nurse explains why he is concerned about the terms 'severe', 'enduring' and 'long-term' when used in relation to mental illness. He believes, from his own experience, that people with a personality disorder are likely to be dependent on, and take advantage of, psychiatric services until they ultimately start to show signs of enduring mental illness. It may be wrong to class people with a personality disorder as being mentally ill. Instead, they need to be encouraged to be more independent and rely less on the medical services.

Personal narratives, Diagnosis, Mental illness, Psychiatric personnel, Mental health personnel, Psychiatric diagnosis

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