Reply to Chanen (2023) ‘bringing personality disorder in from the cold: Why personality disorder is a fundamental concern for youth mental health’

Dear Editor,
Chanen is highly critical of our paper which heightened awareness of unproven psychotherapies for adolescent borderline personality disorder (BPD). Our aim was to protect traumatised young people from treatments without demonstrated efficacy that might otherwise cause harm. For example, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is commonly used for youth BPD, but traditional CBT does not address core aspects such as self-harm and affective lability. We made three main points in our original paper...