| Bio: |
John Gunderson, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. At McLean Hospital he is Director of an innovative Treatment and Research Center for Borderline Personality Disorders. His seminal studies on the diagnosis, families, psychodynamics, treatment and etiology were responsible for transforming the borderline diagnosis from a psychoanalytic construct into an empirically validated and internationally recognized disorder. He chaired the DSM IV work group on personality disorders, and currently is principle investigator of two major NIMH-funded studies, the collaborative study on the longitudinal stability of personality disorders and the family genetic study of borderline personality disorder and its phenotypes. |
| Programs: |
New Perspectives on the Diagnosis, Etiology and Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder |