Posts Tagged complex personality disorder

Peer support film portrays a week in the life of a Cassel outreach patient

Peer support film portrays a week in the life of a Cassel outreach patient

This film is based on a paper presented by former Cassel patients at the BIGSPD conference in June 2023, and subsequently published in the International Journal of Therapeutic Communities. Using a diary format, it chronicles their experience during a typical week in the life of an Outreach patient at The Cassel, where a strong culture of peer […]

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British Journal of Psychotherapy publishes Cassel papers

British Journal of Psychotherapy publishes Cassel papers

The three conference papers from the Cassel Hospital Summer  Conference 2024 have now been published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy (Volume 41:3 August 2025). Adult Psychotherapist Sally Arthur comments: “The BJP journal is well respected in the field of psychoanalytic psychotherapy journals, so it is wonderful that we have been able to publicise the […]

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Cassel experts by experience develop new networks

Cassel experts by experience develop new networks

Supporting past patients to develop their skills and develop work as experts by experience is the main focus of the CHCT’s Service User Involvement Fund (SUIV). So we were delighted to fund past patients to attend the annual BIGSPD conference held this year in Belfast. The former outreach patient group had successfully presented at last […]

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New research into personality disorder severity

New research into personality disorder severity

New research has been published in BJPsych Open by the Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust’s (CHCT) collaboration between King’s College London, and the University of Bristol. The project used novel approaches to explore measures of severity of ‘personality disorder’ using routine data from electronic health records (EHRs). Novel approach to health service data Research lead Dr […]

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Raising awareness of BPD

Raising awareness of BPD

The CHCT congratulates the organisers of A Tale of 3 Cities on delivering a successful programme of events to highlight @BPDAwarenessMonth. A Tale of 3 Cities was a series of national and international events during May 2022 (International Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Month) to highlight and challenge the pervasive and deeply harmful discrimination facing young […]

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HRH Princess Alexandra congratulates The Cassel on its centenary

HRH Princess Alexandra congratulates The Cassel on its centenary

As Patron of The Cassel Hospital Charitable Trust, it gives me great pleasure to congratulate The Cassel on the occasion of its centenary. Founded at the end of the First World War to treat patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, it is a great testament to the work of The Cassel and its staff that, […]

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