Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPDOver 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. |
Contents
ONE What Is Borderline Personality Disorder | 1 |
TWO You Are Not Alone | 21 |
THREE The History of Borderline Personality Disorder | 45 |
FOUR What Are the Causes? | 63 |
FIVE Tracing the Course of the Disorder | 75 |
SIX Borderline Personality Disorder and the Brain | 87 |
SEVEN Common Cooccurring Disorders | 105 |
EIGHT The Key Elements of Treatment | 129 |
NINE Medications | 135 |
TEN The Psychotherapies | 151 |
ELEVEN Borderline Personality Disorder in Children | 161 |
TWELVE When a Loved One Has Borderline Personality | 183 |
The Ultimate Reason for Hope | 197 |
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