Importance of the dynamics between patients with personality disorder and the doctors treating them

Gask and colleagues’ article highlights the prevalence of personality disorders and the challenges these patients present.1

When managing such patients (particularly those with emotionally unstable personality disorder) we must be mindful of transference and countertransference, which can be much more prominent than with other patient encounters. Transference is the unconscious transfer of feelings and attitudes from a person or situation in the …