Good Psychiatric Management

Good Psychiatric Management, also called General Psychiatric Management (GPM), is a psychodynamically informed treatment for borderline personality disorder developed by John G. Gunderson. Initially created as a control-group treatment for randomized controlled trials of borderline personality disorder, it proved effective enough that it was subsequently implemented as a treatment in its own right and remains in use today; Gunderson sought a treatment that could be readily used in ordinary mental health services and that integrated what he judged to be the most effective components of existing treatments. Central to its case-formulation model is the interpersonal hypersensitivity of a patient diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, held to underlie the disorder's symptoms and to be a primary focus of intervention.