Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informative guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling--and widely misunderstood--mental illness, believed to affect approximately 6% of the general population.
Offering families and loved ones supportive guidance that both acknowledges the difficulties they face and shows how they can be overcome, Porr teaches empirically-supported and effective coping behaviors and interpersonal skills, such as new ways of talking about emotions.

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<br>"Valerie Porr has championed the cause of people with borderline personality disorder for decades. Her understanding of the disorder and its effects on the individuals themselves and their families, partners, and friends is outstanding. This readable and informative book distils her years of experience and her first hand knowledge of how to help patients and families, providing the practical wisdom that comes only with a genuine understanding of what it is to be 'borderline'. This is required reading for anyone, from novice to expert, who seeks an understanding of borderline personality disorder and who wants practical guidance on what helps." <br>--Anthony Bateman, Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Visiting Professor University College, London <br><p><br>"Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder by Valerie Porr is like water for a parched land. Few psychiatric disorders are as misunderstood as borderline person

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Introduction; Foreword; 1. A Voice for the Voiceless: Validating Families of People with BPD; 2. The Juggler: Reframing BPD - An Overview of Neurobiology of the Disorder; 3. How Do You Change Behavior; 4. Validation: Talking to the Amygdala; 5. How to Speak Emotion: What are Emotions - Learning the Language of BPD; 6. Radical Acceptance and Grieving; 7. Understanding DBT; 8. Mindfulness and DBT Coping Skills; 9. Is DBT enough? Understanding Mentalization; 10. Putting it All Together: How to Do the DBT Dance; 11. Collaborating for Change: What Clinicians Need to Know; 12. Advocacy; References

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