ArticlePsychiatric bulletin (2014)2014
Prescribing for personality disorder: qualitative study of interviews with general and forensic consultant psychiatrists.
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- Factors That Influence Prescribing in Borderline Personality Disorder: A Systematic Review.Personality and mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Influences on prescribing in borderline personality disorder: insights from health care professionals: a qualitative interview study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- "It seems like they are guessing": a qualitative study of the prescribing process from the perspective of individuals diagnosed with personality disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- New horizons in personality disorders-from neglect to necessity in geriatric care.Age and ageing · 2025Review
- Comparing psychotropic medication prescribing in personality disorder between general mental health and psychological services: retrospective cohort study.BJPsych open · 2021Article
- Prescribing in personality disorder: patients' perspectives on their encounters with GPs and psychiatrists.Family medicine and community health · 2020Article
- Qualitative systematic review of barriers and facilitators to patient-involved antipsychotic prescribing.BJPsych open · 2018Article
- I prescribe, therefore I am?Psychiatric bulletin (2014) · 2014Article
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Abstract
Aims and method To explore experiences of psychiatrists considering medication for patients with personality disorder by analysis of transcribed, semi-structured interviews with consultants. Results Themes show important relational processes in which not prescribing is expected to be experienced as uncaring rejection, and psychiatrists felt helpless and inadequate as doctors when unable to relieve symptoms by prescribing. Discontinuity in doctor-patient relationships compounds these problems. Clinical implications Problems arise from: (a) the psychopathology creating powerful relational effects in consultation; (b) the lack of effective treatments, both actual and secondary to under-resourcing and neglect of non-pharmaceutical interventions; and (c) the professionally constructed role of psychiatrists prioritising healing and cure through provision of technological interventions for specific diagnoses. There is a need for more treatments and services for patients with personality disorder; more support and training for psychiatrists in the relational complexities of prescribing; and a rethink of the trend for psychiatrists to be seen primarily as prescribers.
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