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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Outdated, pretty negative and not helpful for suffers really. Reading this I thought although a lot of the "facts" were true it did have at worse a negative and best neutral description and view on people with this disorder. It is quite old now and cheaply printed and produced and there are better books to spend your money on on this subjects. What I found most disheartening was that it didn't really get to any things that help the sufferer. Only useful is the person didn't have internet access and had NO idea of what BPD was. Stupid me reeeealy as it... more info
Informative on symptoms but another book needed to fill in gaps This book was the first time that I had seen anyone successfully explain the symptoms of this disorder. Finally I knew exactly what the professionals were actually on about! For the time this book was written, it was ground-breaking stuff. However, this should not be the only book you read on the topic. It gives a bleak outlook on the prognosis of those suffering from BPD. In fact it took me a while to read this because I got despondant with it all.
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Very clinical but interesting I have both been in a relationship with somebody with BPD and I am training as a Psychotherapist so this book was useful to me, however it is quite clinically written with lots of references and as such a bit 'dry'.
Worth reading... I'm diagnosed BPD & contrary to much of the opinion here i DID find this book , for the most part, helpful. Yes, it is written as though aimed at family, friends, colleagues etc but that doesnt mean it isn't useful for Borderlines as well. In fact i can accept some of the harsher realities of my Personality better when read as though in the third person as it is equally as informative but much less condemning that having the author tell YOU how wonky YOU are. The book contains many, many case... more info
