On May 8, 2007, the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder organized congressional hearings to educate legislators about borderline personality disorder (BPD). Congressional co-sponsors for the event were Tom Davis (R-Va.) and Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.). On April 1, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 414-0, House Resolution 1005 in support of the month of May as Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month.
Psychiatric News featured a four-part series profiling prominent clinician-researchers who have specialized in research on, and treatment of, BPD. See
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/6/16.1.full,
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/7/11.1.full,
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/content/46/8/4.1.full. The fourth and final installment in the series will appear online tomorrow.
