List Books » Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide to Understanding and Living with BPD
Authors: Robert O. Friedel M.D., P. Woodward, Dixianne Penney, Perry D. Hoffman
ISBN-13: 9781569244562, ISBN-10: 1569244561
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: July 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Over six million Americans suffer from Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), a chronic, disabling psychiatric condition that causes extreme instability in their emotional lives, behavior, and self-image, and severely impacts their family and friends. In Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified, Dr. Robert Friedel, a leading expert in BPD and a pioneer in its treatment, has turned his vast personal experience into a useful and supportive guide for everyone living with and seeking to understand this condition. Friedel helps readers grasp the etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder, the course it takes, the difficulties in diagnosing it, the types of treatment available, strategies for coping, and much more. Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified is an invaluable resource for everyone diagnosed with BPD, those who think they might have the illness, and friends and family who love and support them.
Foreword | xi | |
Introduction | xiii | |
1 | What Is Borderline Personality Disorder and How Is It Diagnosed? | 1 |
2 | You Are Not Alone | 21 |
3 | The History of Borderline Personality Disorder | 45 |
4 | What Are the Causes? | 63 |
5 | Tracing the Course of the Disorder | 75 |
6 | Borderline Personality Disorder and the Brain | 87 |
7 | Common Co-occurring Disorders | 105 |
8 | The Key Elements of Treatment | 129 |
9 | Medications | 135 |
10 | The Psychotherapies | 151 |
11 | Borderline Personality Disorder in Children | 161 |
12 | When a Loved One Has Borderline Personality Disorder | 183 |
13 | Research: The Ultimate Reason for Hope | 197 |
A Final Word | 211 | |
Glossary | 213 | |
Resources | 219 | |
References | 225 | |
Acknowledgments | 239 | |
Index | 241 |