Imbroglio: Rising to the Challenges of Borderline Personality Disorder

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Summary: Excellent Comprehensive Book
Review: I am the webowner of "Borderline Personality Disorder Today." This book has everything you always wanted to know about borderline personality disorder regarding the basics of the BPD in this book. Includes different views of etiology and treatment. Discusses what the person with BPD experiences. Very informative for folks with BPD, families and clinicians. Highly recommended.

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Summary: I was hoping for an authoritative account of BPD
Review: This book is probably a good introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) for someone who is first reading about this disorder. Personally, I was looking for something a little more rigorous and authoritative. The author admits to having no special expertise in the subject, but has interviewed experts and others to arrive at her understanding of BPD. If you're looking for a top-notch, clear and understandable discussion of BPD, I would recommend Marsha Linehan's "Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder." It offers an expertly written account by someone who is actively treating borderline patients and is on the cutting edge of the current scientific research on BPD.

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Summary: A comprehensive overview of current thinking on BPD
Review: This book is the one I finally bought for myself out of all the current books on the subject. It successfully walks a fine line between being too overly "popular" in nature to be useful and too achademicly oriented to be readable. At 400 pages it is not a casual read. Be ready for occasionally dense and often contrary insights from most of the "big thinkers" in the field. Perhaps not the first book you should buy on this subject but a highly recomended next step for any person desiring to extend their knowledge beyond the level of what is in the generally recomended popular books on this still mysterious subject.

Rating:
Summary: A comprehensive overview of current thinking on BPD
Review: This book is the one I finally bought for myself out of all the current books on the subject. It successfully walks a fine line between being too overly "popular" in nature to be useful and too achademicly oriented to be readable. At 400 pages it is not a casual read. Be ready for occasionally dense and often contrary insights from most of the "big thinkers" in the field. Perhaps not the first book you should buy on this subject but a highly recomended next step for any person desiring to extend their knowledge beyond the level of what is in the generally recomended popular books on this still mysterious subject.