The patterns of behavior of those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often frustrating and mystifying to both clinicians and family members, despite several decades of study and research on this form of distress. "Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused Diagnosis" presents a thorough critical and historical review of the diagnosis of BPD and explores--through academic and clinical narratives--the different processes that occur in borderline behavior patterns.
The authors offer new perspectives that emphasize the whole person rather...
The patterns of behavior of those with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are often frustrating and mystifying to both clinicians and family mem...
Damage and reparation are central themes of human existence. Melanie Klein, among other pivotal discoveries, noted our capacity for destructiveness towards others and ourselves. More importantly, she accented the centrality of reparation for mental health. Acceptance of the truth, -inner- and -outer-, is essential to this process.
The author goes on to explain the phenomenon of reparation around the themes of truth (aletheia), faith (pistis) and repentance/transformation (metanoia), especially as they appear in the philosophical works of Martin Heidegger and the psychoanalyst...
Damage and reparation are central themes of human existence. Melanie Klein, among other pivotal discoveries, noted our capacity for destructiveness to...
