ABSTRACT
Pharmacotherapy is a common form of treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD) (1-3). It may stabilize the patient so that they can better use psychotherapy. It is also possible, as is reviewed in other chapters of this book, that there may be certain temperamental or biological vulnerabilities within the borderline patient, which may be helped by medication, so that pharmacotherapy may be valuable in and of itself. In this chapter we will review studies of pharmacotherapy in BPD, emphasizing past influential studies and recent double-blind, placebo-controlled studies.
