PMID- 31143448 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20231011 IS - 2051-6673 (Print) IS - 2051-6673 (Electronic) IS - 2051-6673 (Linking) VI - 6 DP - 2019 TI - European guidelines for personality disorders: past, present and future. PG - 9 LID - 10.1186/s40479-019-0106-3 [doi] LID - 9 AB - Personality disorders (PD) are common and burdensome mental disorders. The treatment of individuals with PD represents one of the more challenging areas in the field of mental health and health care providers need evidence-based recommendations to best support patients with PDs. Clinical guidelines serve this purpose and are formulated by expert consensus and/or systematic reviews of the current evidence. In this review, European guidelines for the treatment of PDs are summarized and evaluated. To date, eight countries in Europe have developed and published guidelines that differ in quality with regard to recency and completeness, transparency of methods, combination of expert knowledge with empirical data, and patient/service user involvement. Five of the guidelines are about Borderline personality disorder (BPD), one is about antisocial personality disorder and three concern PD in general. After evaluating the methodological quality of the nine European guidelines from eight countries, results in the domains of diagnosis, psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment of PD are discussed. Our comparison of guidelines reveals important contradictions between recommendations in relation to diagnosis, length and setting of treatment, as well as the use of pharmacological treatment. All the guidelines recommend psychotherapy as the treatment of first choice. Future guidelines should rigorously follow internationally accepted methodology and should more systematically include the views of patients and users. FAU - Simonsen, Sebastian AU - Simonsen S AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5488-7562 AD - Stolpegaard Psychotherapy Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark. FAU - Bateman, Anthony AU - Bateman A AD - University College, London and Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, University of Copenhagen, London, UK. FAU - Bohus, Martin AU - Bohus M AD - 3Institute of Psychiatric and Psychosomatic Psychotherapy; Central Institute of Mental Health, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany. ISNI: 0000 0001 2190 4373. GRID: grid.7700.0 FAU - Dalewijk, Henk Jan AU - Dalewijk HJ AD - Private practice, Weesp, The Netherlands. FAU - Doering, Stephan AU - Doering S AD - 5Department of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. ISNI: 0000 0000 9259 8492. GRID: grid.22937.3d FAU - Kaera, Andres AU - Kaera A AD - 6Kanta-Hame Central Hospital, Hameenlinna, Finland. ISNI: 0000 0004 0628 3152. GRID: grid.413739.b FAU - Moran, Paul AU - Moran P AD - 7Centre for Academic Mental Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 7603. GRID: grid.5337.2 FAU - Renneberg, Babette AU - Renneberg B AD - 8Freie Universitat, Berlin, Germany. ISNI: 0000 0000 9116 4836. GRID: grid.14095.39 FAU - Ribaudi, Joaquim Soler AU - Ribaudi JS AD - 9Department of Psychiatry, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain. ISNI: 0000 0004 1768 8905. GRID: grid.413396.a AD - 10Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM, Madrid, Spain. GRID: grid.469673.9 FAU - Taubner, Svenja AU - Taubner S AD - 11Universitatsklinikum Heidelberg | Universitat Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. ISNI: 0000 0001 2190 4373. GRID: grid.7700.0 FAU - Wilberg, Theresa AU - Wilberg T AD - Department of Research and Development, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. FAU - Mehlum, Lars AU - Mehlum L AD - 13National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 8921. GRID: grid.5510.1 LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20190521 PL - England TA - Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul JT - Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation JID - 101650634 PMC - PMC6530178 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Guidelines OT - Personality disorders OT - Recommendations COIS- Competing interestsSS, AB, MB, SD, JSR and LM are either presently involved or have previously been involved in randomized controlled trial of MBT, DBT and TFP. SS was part of the workgroup for the Danish guidelines. AB and PAM were part of the workgroup for the British guidelines. MB, BR and ST have either previously or are presently involved in development of the German guidelines. EDAT- 2019/05/31 06:00 MHDA- 2019/05/31 06:01 PMCR- 2019/05/21 CRDT- 2019/05/31 06:00 PHST- 2019/03/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2019/04/30 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/05/31 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2019/05/21 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 106 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s40479-019-0106-3 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2019 May 21;6:9. doi: 10.1186/s40479-019-0106-3. eCollection 2019.