Borderline Personality as Social Phenomena

What does leisure have to do with mental health–arts, creative and leisure practices and living with mental distress

T Borovica, R Kokanović, EL Seal, J Flore, K Boydell, L Blackman, L Hayes

2026-01-01

There is a growing interest in the role of leisure, arts and creative activities in cultivating health and wellbeing across differ..

The emotional labour of peer work: encountering stigma in mental healthcare spaces

EL Seal, J Flore, R Kokanović, T Borovica, C Duff, SDM Thomas, S Rao, A Chanen

2025-01-01

This article focuses on the workplace experiences of peer workers with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) in men..

Talking about borderline personality disorder, shaping care: The multiple doings of narratives

EL Seal, R Kokanović, J Flore, T Borovica, JH Broadbear, L McCutcheon, S Lawn

2024-11-01

This article focuses on the narratives that circulate about borderline personality disorder (BPD) in health-care settings in Austr..

Experimenting with arts-based methods and affective provocations to understand complex lived experience of a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder

B Tamara, K Renata, F Jacinthe, B Lisa, S Emma-Louise, B Kathrine, B Jill

2024-06-01

This article draws on arts-based psycho-social research to explore embodied and visceral knowing and feeling in the context of peo..