September 2025 October 2025 Consequences of Misdiagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder – Professional and Personal perspectives Abbey Brocklehurst Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), also known as Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder (EUPD), is a mental health diagnosis often associated with emotional intensity, unstable relationships, impulsivity, and difficulties with identity. However, it is a highly controversial and frequently…
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NWRPA Newsletter – April 2024
Factitious Disorders (Medical Deception) Paige Barker Monday 8 April 2024 Summary by Frank Kelley Paige Barker is a PhD student in the Faculty of Health and School of Forensic Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University. Her research area is within Factitious Disorders involving medical deception, these being Factitious Disorder Imposed on Self and Factitious Disorder…
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The Brain Basis of Consciousness: 9th October 2023
Prof Mark Solms Monday 9 October 2023 7.00pm – 8.00pm BST Perceptual imagery and language dominates our conscious experience. These functions are performed by the cerebral cortex. Understandably, for this reason, we have for the past two centuries considered the cortex (which is uniquely well developed in human beings) to be the ‘organ of consciousness’….
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NWRPA Newsletter July 2023
The Early Years of the NWRPA Frank Kelley Monday 10 July 2023 Summary by Frank Kelley It was good to see Eileen Ainsworth at this seminar. We are both long standing members and joined the NWRPA around 1991 or 1992. At that time the Association was already around ten years old and so we have…
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