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| Title: | Borderline Personality Disorder in the Medial Setting
: Unmasking & Managing the Difficult Patient |
| Author: | Randy A Sansone, MD & Lori A Sansone, MD |
| ISBN: | 1600214517 : 9781600214516 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 158 |
| Weight: | .53 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - February 2008 |
| List Price: | 52.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Psychiatry |
This book provides the reader with a general overview of borderline personality including: (a) a clinical definition of the disorder; (b) epidemiology (eg: prevalence, gender-specific characteristics, ethnic/geographic variation, associated clinical features such as multiple comorbid medical and psychiatric diagnoses); (c) etiology (i.e., a multi-determined disorder with strong clinical associations with childhood trauma); (d) psychological themes (e.g., particularly the evolving role of victimhood from childhood through adulthood); (e) diagnosis (i.e., criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the Self-Harm Inventory, the borderline subscale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4, and the Mclean Screening Inventory for Borderline Personality Disorder); (f) the classic presentation in the psychiatric setting compared with the "medicalized" presentation in the medical setting (the truly unique portion of the book, which focuses on medically self-defeating behaviours, somatic preoccupation, chronic pain syndromes including fibromyalgia, multiple somatic diagnoses, multiple drug sensitivities/allergies, and disability); and (g) general treatment principles in the medical setting.
Introduction; Borderline Personality: A Psychiatric Overview; Borderline Personality Symptoms in the Medical Setting; Medical Syndromes and Borderline Personality Disorder; The Psychological and Behavioural Management of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in the Medical Setting; Pharamacological Approaches to Borderline Personality Disorder; Index.
