Welcome to the Carlat Psychiatry Podcast. This is an episode from the psychotherapy podcast team.

I'm your host, Abigail Rossel, and I'm honored to be joined today by Dr. Kenneth Levy, Ph.D.,

to kick off our multi-part series delving into borderline personality disorder.

Dr. Levy is a tenured professor in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the Pennsylvania State University, where he directs the laboratory for personality, psychopatology, and psychotherapy research.

He serves as an adjunct assistant professor of psychology and psychiatry at the Cornell Medical College, and is also a member of the Cornell's Personality Disorders Institute,

where he serves as a faculty fellow and an executive committee member. Dr. Levy has been both a

principal investigator and a co-principal investigator on many of the key projects of the PDI related

to borderline personality disorder over the last 10 years, and generally has played a really central

role in a lot of the groundbreaking research

that's been fundamental to how we conceptualize of borderline pathology and what we know of treatment

and treatment mechanisms today. So I'm very honored to have him here with us and to be able to kick

off our series with the very first episode titled Crossing the Alphabet Divide and Integrative

Overview of BPD Treatments.

We're excited to share that we've also created a companion article for this discussion that includes a CME post test that you can complete in order to earn CME credits.

That article is linked in the episode description and the podcast episode page on www.thecarlattereport.com.

Dr. Levy, welcome, and thank you so much for being here with us. Can you just start off by

briefly sharing a little bit about anything that I might have missed in terms of your background and your expertise in the area? First of all, thank you for having me. It's a great

pleasure to be here in an honor. I don't know how much more I could say about my background. I

could tell a little bit about how I got interested in borderline personality disorder, started as a mental

health worker working in an

inpatient unit and being exposed to people who were struggling with the kinds of issues that are

typical of people who are grappling with what we call borderline personality disorder and wanting to understand and be helpful

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