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Podcast: Thoughts on Record: Podcast of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
Episode: Dr. Julian Ford: Differentiating Borderline Personality Disorder & Complex PTSD
Description: Comments or feedback? Send us a text! Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) & borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often confused and sometimes used interchangeably when, in fact, they are separate diagnoses with distinct underlying core etiology and symptomatology. Clinical Psychologist & Professor, Dr. Julian Ford, joins us for a conversation around defining & differentiating CPTSD & BPD. In this conversation we cover:the adequacy of current conceptualizations of traumathe origin of the diagnostic construct of complex PTSD (CPTSD) and why it was proposed as an alternative to borderline personality disorder (BPD)where CPTSD and BPD overlap, and where they differthe s...