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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a common disorder in general and clinical populations and is related to potentially severe medical and socio-professional consequences. Treatment of BPD is based on evidence-based psychotherapies (such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mentalization-Based Therapy, Schema-Focused Therapy or Transference Focused Psychotherapy), which have been shown effective but are poorly available in France. Pharmacological treatments, which are more easily available, are not effective in treating symptoms of the disorder but can be useful in management of comorbidities. In this context, recently called "generalist" models have been developed, which every well-trained psychiatrist can implement in their daily practice, combining practical elements from evidence-based psychotherapies and elements of pharmacological management of symptoms and comorbidities. The purpose of this article is to present one of these models, the Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) and its basic principles and its applications, and to provide one of the first French-speaking resources about this model. In addition, beyond the practical elements proposed by the GPM, we discuss the deeper question that it raises, namely the question of a pragmatic integration of different theoretical and clinical models. Indeed, the treatment of BPD patients is at the junction of different conceptualizations of mental pathology (psychopathological, neurobiological) and different modalities of practice (psychotherapy, biological psychiatry). In a French context, that sometimes separates these two models, and in our opinion GPM constitutes an example of clinical collaboration which shows the interest of the combined role of psychiatrist-psychotherapist., (Copyright © 2023 L'Encéphale, Paris. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

This article presents basic notions of "Good Psychiatric Management" (GPM) for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). There have been several evidence-based psychotherapeutic treatments for BPD for several decades. Nevertheless, high requirements and motivation required sometimes have a discouraging effect for trainees. GPM aims at offering «good enough» and less difficult to implement care. This article presents the notion of Interpersonnal Hypersensitivity and its different attachment states (attached, threatened, abandoned, and desperate) describing internal coherence of BPD and founding therapeutic interventions. GPM is principle based, thus is highly adaptable, as can be seen in integration with other intervention models or implementation of stepped care., Competing Interests: Les auteurs n’ont déclaré aucun conflit d’intérêts en relation avec cet article.