Borderline Personality Disorder

by Roy Krawitz, Wendy Jackson

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a psychiatric condition that affects nearly 2% of the general population, predominantly women. Symptoms of BPD include impulsivity, mood swings, unstable intense relationships and feelings of chronic emptiness. Research on BPD has lagged behind that on other mental health conditions, such as depression and psychosis, primarily due to the lack of evidence of effective treatment but also due to the stigma historically associatedwith the condition. Fortunately this situation is changing, with improved treatments now available and improved clinician/organizational willingness to engage with those with a diagnosis of BPD.This candid book collaboratively co-authored by a person recovered from BPD and a BPD specialist therapist is written specifically for people with BPD (with support teams, including family, friends and clinicians also likely to benefit from reading the book). This authoritative and easily readable guide provides a compassionate understanding of the condition, plenty of in-depth practical recovery strategies and credible and realistic hope for recovery. The authors draw from the latest researchand share years of personal and professional experience that brings the book alive. Review comments from Vice-President, National Education Alliance for BPD and Director, Middle Path (BPD advocacy organizations) include "most down-to-earth, accessible book for people with BPD" and "tremendous andpotentially life-changing gift".

Genres: Psychiatry

282 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 31, 2008

Reviews

[Nesreen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book. Very helpful, precise, straight to the point and most importantly beginner friendly. It helped me through a whole concept that I am TOTALLY new to very smoothly.

[Kelley Stoneking · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although this book is written for the person with BPD, as the child of that someone, I found it very helpful. Several new ideas were presented. I would recommend this book to anyone in association with BPD.

[Seamus · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay book. Best part: the conversational style of writing that really makes you feel as though the authors are talking to you as a person. Probably worth reading just for that empathetic style. Worst part: the book wasn't really as specifically geared towards Borderline as the title leads one to believe. What I mean is that there are entire sections where if you took out BPD and put in the name of some other disorder, it would still make sense. More of a general how-to-be-mentally-happy-and-overcome-serious-mental-problems kind of book.

[Simon Purdy · Rating 3 out of 5]

An informative book to a degree, though perhaps I wasn't its target audience. This book is obviously written for an individual who suffers with borderline personality disorder, and from my understanding of the diagnostic criteria - I don't. But the criteria are obtuse, vague, ambiguous and barely comprehensible. But I think for a person who does suffer, this book will have some value.