News from the ESSPD
The ESSPD Conference 2026: Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice
The ESSPD 2026 Conference “Transforming Futures: Integrating Lived Experience, Research, and Practice”, was just held in Lausanne 7-9th September. Thank you to all delegates who made this exciting and innovative experience possible. Certificates of attendance will be automatically sent to all participants by email. We will follow up soon with further details about this enriching event. See you all in Wuertzburg, Germany, in September 2028 for the 9th ESSPD Congress!
Scientific Journal
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotional Dysregulation
Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotional Dysregulation (BPDED) edited by Martin Bohus, Christian Schmahl and John M. Oldham is the official journal of the ESSPD. The open access journal focuses on the psychological, social, and neurobiological aspects of emotion dysregulation. It covers the whole range of BPD research including epidemiology, phenomenology, pathophysiology, psychological, and pharmacological treatment, neurobiology, genetics, and animal models of BPD. The journal impact factor for 2023 is 4,0. The ESSPD donates three Waivers for Article Processing Charges (APC) primarily to members from Eastern European countries.
Current Call for Papers
Aggression and Antisociality: Development, Mechanisms, and Treatment across the Lifespan
BPDED is currently welcoming submissions to a collection inviting interdisciplinary contributions that examine aggression and antisociality in the context of personality pathology and related conditions. Further details about the call for papers can be found here and on the journal’s website.
Submission Deadline: 23.11.2026
Upcoming Conferences
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The ESSPD
Stimulates and supports scholarship, clinical experience, international collaboration and communication of research on all aspects of personality disorders including epidemiology, etiology, diagnosis and assessment, course and treatment in Europe.
Society with a European signature which will address the specific needs of the European personality disorder field and actively will expand it to countries in which it is less developed.
Actively seeks contact and cooperation with family and users organizations and is open to professionals who are actively involved or interested in the study, assessment and treatment of personality disorders.
Closely cooperates with the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders, ISSPD.