Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder

Informationen zum Autor John G. Gunderson! M.D.! is Director of the Center for Treatment and Research on Borderline Personality Disorder at McClean Hospital in Belmont Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Perry D. Hoffman! Ph.D.! is President of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder and Research Associate at Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York! New York. Klappentext "Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families" offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The editors of this eminently practical and accessible text have brought together the wide-ranging and updated perspectives of 15 recognized experts Zusammenfassung It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword. Preface. A word to the lay reader. Part I: Diagnosis! Treatment! and Prognosis. The borderline diagnosis: concepts! criteria! and controversies. Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder. Suicidal and self-injurious behavior in borderline personality disorder: a self-regulation model. Pharmacotherapy in borderline personality disorder. The longitudinal course of borderline personality disorder. Part II: Family Matters. Living with borderline personality disorder: two firsthand accounts. Family perspectives on borderline personality disorder. From family trauma to family support system. Family involvement in treatment. Index.

Autorentext

John G. Gunderson, M.D., is Director of the Center for Treatment and Research on Borderline Personality Disorder at McClean Hospital in Belmont Massachusetts. He is also Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Perry D. Hoffman, Ph.D., is President of the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder and Research Associate at Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York, New York.

Klappentext
"Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families" offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The editors of this eminently practical and accessible text have brought together the wide-ranging and updated perspectives of 15 recognized experts

Zusammenfassung
It offers both a valuable update for mental health professionals and much-needed information and encouragement for BPD patients and their families and friends. The chapters on families give voice to the experience of BPD and offer the hope that family involvement in treatment will be beneficial to everyone.

Inhalt
Foreword. Preface. A word to the lay reader. Part I: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis. The borderline diagnosis: concepts, criteria, and controversies. Psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder. Suicidal and self-injurious behavior in borderline personality disorder: a self-regulation model. Pharmacotherapy in borderline personality disorder. The longitudinal course of borderline personality disorder. Part II: Family Matters. Living with borderline personality disorder: two firsthand accounts. Family perspectives on borderline personality disorder. From family trauma to family support system. Family involvement in treatment. Index.