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Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change
M.A. Valerie Porr
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Description for Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: MMJ; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 25. Weight in Grams: 572.
BPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to those with whom they are intimate. Others have trouble simply holding down a job or staying in school. It is believed that suicide claims about one in ten people with BPD. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change is a compassionate, informative, and reassuring guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling--and widely misunderstood--mental illness, believed to affect 2-3% of the ... Read more
BPD is a potentially devastating mental disorder characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, and dangerous impulsivity. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to those with whom they are intimate. Others have trouble simply holding down a job or staying in school. It is believed that suicide claims about one in ten people with BPD. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change is a compassionate, informative, and reassuring guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling--and widely misunderstood--mental illness, believed to affect 2-3% of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
572g
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195379587
SKU
V9780195379587
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About M.A. Valerie Porr
Valerie Porr, M.A., is a mental health advocate trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, the most widely-used therapeutic technique for BPD, and the founder and president of the Treatment and Research Advancements National Association for Personality Disorder (TARA NAPD). She conducts psycho-educational training seminars for family members of those with BPD, in New York and elsewhere. The coauthor of New Hope ... Read more
Reviews for Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change
"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 ... Read more