Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation: A new journal to meet a growing need

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) has become a major focus of interest in psychiatric and psychological research over the last two decades. BPD was once considered to be a disorder with a poor prognosis that was persistent and disabling, but research has shown that it can be effectively treated and that substantial numbers of patients with BPD improve dramatically over time [1,2]. New findings have emerged from psychometrics to genetics, greatly increasing our knowledge of the neurobiology and pathoetiology of BPD. We have often been approached by colleagues, e.g. at scientific meetings, that a journal with a specific focus on BPD and its most central feature emotion dysregulation, covering the broad and expanding scope of the field is urgently needed. Therefore, we felt the time was ripe to launch a new journal devoted to BPD. Our new open-access journal Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation (BPDED; www.bpded.com) will provide a platform for researchers and clinicians interested in BPD and in other conditions prominently characterized by emotion dysregulation to share information and new knowledge about these important conditions.