According to Robert Friedel (2011) the first descriptions of people exhibiting symptoms of borderline personality disorder were mentioned in medical reports 3000 years ago. However, it was not until 1938 that the disease was classified and identified. An American psychoanalyst named Adolph Stern first described most of the symptoms and suggested the possible causes and reasons why borderline personality disorder develops, as well as his opinion on the most effective forms of treatment. He eventually gave a name to the disorder by referring to patients with symptoms he described as “the borderline group.” (Friedel, 2011) In the 1960s, psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg proposed that mental disorders were determined by three distinct personality organizations: psychotic, neurotic, and “borderline personality.” Kernberg has been a strong advocate of modified psychoanalytic therapy for some patients with borderline personality disorder. (Friedel, 2011) In 1975 John Gunderson and Margaret Singer compiled all the relevant, known and published information on borderline personality disorder and published their widely praised article defining its main characteristics. Gunderson has also published a research tool specifically to improve the accurate diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. This instrument has allowed researchers around the world to test the validity and integrity of borderline personality disorder. Thanks to their efforts, Borderline Personality Disorder first appeared in the DSM-III as a legitimate psychiatric disorder in 1980. (Friedel, 2011) In 1979, John Brinkley, Bernard Beitman, and Robert Friedel proposed that low doses of neuroleptics were effective in curbing the symptoms of borderline personality disorder...... half of the document ......m http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&Template=/TaggedPage/ TaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID =54&ContentID=44780NAMI. (n.d.). Mental illnesses: borderline personality disorder. Retrieved from http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=By_Illness&Template=/TaggedPageTaggedPageDisplay.cfm&TPLID=54Preston, J., O'Neal, J., & Talaga, M. (2010). Manual of clinical psychopharmacology for therapists. (6th edition). Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. SAMHSA. (n.d.). American Art Therapy Association. Retrieved from http://www.samhsa.gov/children/aatahandout.aspSAMHSA. (n.d.). Myths and facts about mental health. Retrieved from http://stopstigma.samhsa.gov/publications/myths_facts.aspxZanarini, M. (1997). Role of sexual abuse in the etiology of borderline personality disorder. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.