Borderline personality disorder
Subtitle: new perspectives on a stigmatizing and overused diagnosis
By: Jacqueline Simon Gunn and Brent Potter
Contributors: Potter, Brent
Series: Practical and applied psychology; Practical and applied psychology
Publisher: Praeger, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781440832291; 9781440832307
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Borderline Personality Disorder; Borderline personality disorder; Diagnosis
Description: Presents a thorough critical and historical review of the diagnosis of BPD and explores--through academic and clinical narratives--the different process that occur in borderline behavior patterns. The authors offer new perspectives that emphasize the whole person rather than a diagnosis, addressing the emotional storms and mood instability of BPD, providing guidance on managing emotional chaos in the therapeutic relationship, and explaining how to use one's own feelings as a clinical tool.--From jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The borderline personality personified : The scarlet label ; Mary ; Andria; title: A historical anatomy of a social construction: "wandering womb," hysteria, psychiatric disease : Antiquity: maladies of the feminine and the feminine as malady ; Middle ages: from uterus as endoparasite to demonic possession ; Modernity: from bedevilment to brain disease: orgasm therapy and the rise of the respected physician ; Deliteralizing the feminine: dynamic, developmental, and social contextualisms ; Contextualism abandoned and BPD's formal entry into the psychiatric "bible"; title: The "borderline" as a human person: contemporary perspectives : "Borderline" is to psychiatry as psychiatry is to medicine ; Contexts of agony ; An experimentalist description of being with "borderline personality disorder"; title: Chewed up, spat out: Jane's story; title: Emotional jungle gym: Melanie's story; title: The permeable frame: Ethan's story; title: Watering flowers: the stories of Caroline, Violet, and Charley; title: Conclusion : Reflections, new directions; title: Appendix : Wellness and recovery resources.