I Hate You - Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality - Hardcover

Jerold J. Kreisman; Hal Straus

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Discusses the growing mental health problem of borderline personality disorder, explains signs and symptoms of the disorder and explores possible causes

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Borderline personality disorder (BPD) has been in the official psychiatric lexicon only since 1980. "Borderlines," according to the authors, are people who suffer from a weak sense of identity and a fear of abandonment; given to rapid mood swings, impulsive self-destructiveness and violent outbursts, they frequently have family backgrounds marked by alcoholism, child abuse or emotional distance. Kreisman, a psychiatrist who heads a BPD unit in a St. Louis hospital, and health writer Straus, speculate that the BPD diagnosis might be applicable to Marilyn Monroe, Adolph Hitler, T. E. Lawrence and Muammar al Qaddafi. They claim that BPD afflicts over 10 million Americans and is the most common disorder among hospitalized mental patients. This clinically written primer leaves the reader with the impression that BPD syndrome is a catchall category.
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ISBN 10:  0380713055 ISBN 13:  9780380713059
Publisher: Avon Books, 1991
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