Jon Hershfield: OCD and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (#353)

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Stuart

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🗓️ 30 October 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In episode 353 I interviewed Jon Hershfield. Jon is a psychotherapist and the director of The Center for OCD and Anxiety, at Sheppard Pratt. He is the author of six OCD books.

We discuss what's new with Jon, his new book, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), OCD and BPD, common overlaps in traits, causes of BPD, how BPD may complicate therapy for OCD and how to navigate this, Dialectical behaviour Therapy (DBT), words of hope and much more. Hope it helps.

Show notes: https://theocdstories.com/episode/jon-353

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0:00.0	You're listening to The O. C.D. Stories podcast, hosted by me, Stuart Ralph.
0:05.3	The O. C. D. Stories is a podcast dedicated to raising awareness and understanding
0:10.1	around obsessive compulsive symptoms. I do this for interviewing inspired therapists,
0:15.2	psychologists and people who have experienced OCD. Welcome to the OCD stories.
0:21.6	Welcome to episode 353 and in this one I got back on John Hirschfeld.
0:27.0	John Hirschfeld is a psychotherapist and director of the Center for Ocede and Anxiety at Shepard Pratt. He is also the author of six OCD books and he's been on this podcast many times before.
0:38.0	So in this one we discuss what's new with John, the book he's working on, borderline personality disorder, or BPD, how BPD may complicate therapy for OCD and how to navigate this,
0:57.0	dialectical behaviour therapy, words of hope and much more.
1:01.0	And thank you to NOCD for supporting the podcast. No CD offers effective
1:05.5	and convenient therapy available in the US and outside the US. To find out more about
1:10.4	no CD, their therapy plans, if they currently take your insurance or to download
1:14.8	their free app head to go.treat my O.CD.com forward slash the O. C. D. stories. Or the link will be in the
1:22.0	episode description. And thank you as always to you guys for listening. I deeply appreciate it. And thank you to John for his time. About forever do, here he is. Welcome back to the show John. Hi Stuart thanks for having me. Yeah it's good to have you back on.
1:37.8	So I guess initially just what's new of you what do you want to share or just update us on?
1:43.0	Well, I'm going to call exactly the last time we spoke, but I'm still employed,
1:49.3	so that's always good.
1:50.3	I'm directing the Center for Ocidy and Anxiety at Shepard Pratt, which is an outpatient center, and then we also provide an OcD program within the retreat, which is a residential center, and that continues to evolve and also we're in the process of sort of building the framework for an
2:09.0	OCD focused adolescent residential center here at a
2:13.3	shepherds, at Shepherds, so that's very exciting.
2:14.0	And then in the meantime, I've been working on this book that's going to be kind of the subject
2:18.1	that we're going to discuss today called The Unwanted
2:21.0	thoughts and intenseotions Workbook,
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