The Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative (BPDI) at the Semel Institute at UCLA is dedicated to the treatment of borderline personality disorder and to the education of clinicians in evidence-based treatment methods for this disorder.

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric illness characterized by dysfunction in the regulation of emotion, behavior, relationships, thinking and one’s sense of self.  BPD appears prevalent in around 2% of the general population. 

BPDI current offers a one year program based on the Mentalization-Based Treatment Model developed by Anthony Bateman, MA, FRCPsych and Peter Fonagy, PhD, FBA and a one year program in Dialectic Behavior Therapy as developed by Marsha Linehan, PhD.