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Authors: Jerome Kroll
ISBN-13: 9780393701579, ISBN-10: 0393701573
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: June 1993
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Jerome Kroll

Book Synopsis

Taking into account ambiguities in the relationship between childhood abuse experiences, formation of self- destructive personality styles, and subsequent psychotherapy, the author presents a working model that is useful without limiting the practitioner.

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Critically examines the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult borderline personality disorder, with a particular focus on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Taking into account the many ambiguities in the current understanding of the complex relationship between childhood abuse experiences, formation of self-destructive personality styles, and subsequent psychotherapy for these problems, Kroll (psychiatry, U. of Minnesota Medical School) presents a working model that is useful without straitjacketing the practitioner or foreclosing the opportunities for new perspectives. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Disconcerting Data: Seven Plus One Pieces of Evidence	9
2	Childhood and Adolescent Sexual Abuse	30
3	Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder: Are They the Same?	57
4	Self-Injurious Behavior: Cross-Cultural and Historical Aspects	79
5	Gratification of Needs	110
6	Replaying Old Patterns and Traumas	154
7	Coming to Terms with the Abuse of the Past	184
8	How the Past Controls the Present	207
9	How the Past Shapes the Transference	226
10	Countertransference Issues	240
11	Concluding Remarks	248
	Bibliography	253
	Index	263