I Hate You--Don't Leave Me Understanding the Borderline Personality

Name: I Hate You--Don't Leave Me Understanding the Borderline Personality
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ISBN: 9780399536212

ISBN-10: 0399536213

ISBN-13: 9780399536212

Edition: 2010

Authors: Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus

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"Am I losing my mind?" People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) experience such violent and frightening mood swings that they often fear for their sanity. They can be euphoric one moment, despairing and depressed the next. There are an estimated 18 million sufferers of BPD living in America today-each displaying remarkably similar symptoms: * A shaky sense of identity * Sudden outbursts of anger * Oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection * Brief, turbulent love affairs * Intense feelings of emptiness * Eating disorders, drug abuse, and other self-destructive tendencies * An irrational fear of abandonment and an inability to be alone For years BPD was difficult to describe,…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/7/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface


Note to Reader



The World of the Borderline



Chaos and Emptiness



Roots of the Borderline Syndrome



The Borderline Society



Communicating with the Borderline



Coping with the Borderline



Seeking Therapy



Specific Psychotherapeutic Approaches



Medications: The Science and the Promise



Understanding and Healing



DSM-IV-TR Classifications



Evolution of the Borderline Syndrome


Resources


Notes


Index