John Gunder Gunderson[1] (June 20, 1942 – January 11, 2019) was a professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and a director at the Borderline center at McLean Hospital.
According to Massachusetts General Hospital, his success led to him being called the "father" of borderline personality disorder.
In 2009, McLean Hospital named a treatment center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after him, called the “Gunderson Residence”.
[1][4] in the latter part of his career, Gunderson developed a treatment model called 'Good Psychiatric Management'.
This involves research which shows that less intensive, easier-to-learn therapies could be nearly as effective as more developed approaches (DBT and MBT), and would cater for continuing unmet needs often seen in the clinical setting.