Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, May 17, 2023

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Scott Hall - Blue Lecture Hall / Zoom

Speaker:

Omar Soubani, DO

Resident

General Psychiatry Residency Program

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Wayne State University School of Medicine

Discussant: Gerald Shiener, MD

No Commerical Relationship

TOPIC: "What Truly Helps Our Patients? Reframing Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorders"

Objectives:

1.  Identify the clinical features that suggest an underlying borderline personality disorder in the context of other psychiatric and medical illnesses.

2.  Analyze borderline personality structure through lenses of genetics, development, psychology, neurobiology, and trauma.

3.  Describe placebo and nocebo, and the interplay between therapeutic alliance, treatment duration, and efficacy.

4.  Discuss the importance of the therapeutic frame and how it contributes to the formation of a holding environment.