Product Description: For some 5 to 16 million Americans, borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a pervasive pattern of instability that begins early in life. What are the three subgroups of BPD? How do you differentiate BPD from other disorders? What is the likelihood of recovery? Is group or individual therapy more effective? What environmental, genetic, and biological influences may cause BPD? How do medications impact BPD symptoms? This book will help answer these and many other questions...read more

Product Description: Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends...read more

Borderline personality disorder. “What in the hell was that?” raged Rachel Reiland after discovering the term on her discharge papers from the hospital psychiatric ward. As the twenty-nine-year-old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon learn, borderline personality disorder (BPD) was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive bent, including devastating episodes of substance abuse, anorexia, and sexual promiscuity.With astonishing honesty, Reiland reveals what mental illness feels like and looks like from the inside. Her story is horrifying, but in the end, hopeful—offering living proof that healing from this tenacious psychiatric disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones.

Product Description: Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are among the most challenging patients for clinicians to treat. Their behaviors and emotions can shift abruptly. As a result, these patients can seem like therapeutic moving targets, and improvement can be vexingly slow...read more

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Product Description: There are many approaches to the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder. In this fascinating volume, the editors interview the major proponents of these approaches. The book contains fourteen interviews with a diverse range of therapists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Management of Countertransference with Borderline Patients is an open and detailed discussion of the emotional reactions that clinicians experience when treating borderline patients. This book provides a systematic approach to managing countertransference that legitimizes the therapist's reactions and shows ways to use them therapeutically with the patient...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This book explains the ideas to be found in the interface between psychoanalysis, psychiatry and other disciplines.

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Charles Cohen and Vance Sherwood focus on the first stage of therapy with borderline patients, the "preconstancy" stage - the time during which a constant attachment must be formed between the patient and therapist. This first phase of treatment is neither quick nor easy to resolve. This book traces the issues facing the therapist during that time, which is usually a very stormy period. The authors propose a treatment approach built around broadening the patient's time sense. The patient's experience of self and other is characterized by urgency and crisis, and affect is experienced with a now-is-forever quality. This book aims to clarify the issues borderline patients face in their daily lives and the attendant treatment dilemmas therapists confront. The authors avoid language and categories that are abstracted form life; hence, the book offers therapists a clear and concise stance for engaging this troubled and troublesome population.

Product Description: Presenting analytic-dynamic psychotherapy with the borderline patient, this volume discusses aspects of this type of psychotherapy, which is still one of the most useful approaches to borderline pathology. Numerous clinical case studies are illustrated in the discussion. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This volume offers an approach to the therapy of borderline patients. The author's spectrum view of borderline psychopathology provides a comprehensive understanding of the borderline syndrome. He calls for a variety of psychotherapeutic strategies and a flexible schema of pathology...read more

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Product Description: Borderline personality disorder patients can make impossible demands on their therapists. This manual presents a model for group psychotherapy for such patients as more effective than individual therapy as it allows friction between patient and therapist to be dissipated throughout the group...read more

Product Description: This text contains descriptions of how to work with borderline patients. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)