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| Title: | Borderline Personality Disorder
: New Research |
| Author: | Marian H Jackson & Linda F Westbrook (eds) |
| ISBN: | 1606924605 : 9781606924600 |
| Illustrations: | b/w illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 180x260mm |
| Pages: | 184 |
| Weight: | .582 Kg. |
| Published: | Nova Science Publishers - May 2009 |
| List Price: | 114.5 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Psychiatry |
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious mental illness characterised by pervasive instability in moods, interpersonal relationships, self-image, and behaviour. This instability often disrupts family and work life, long-term planning, and the individual's sense of self-identity. Originally thought to be at the "borderline" of psychosis, people with BPD suffer from a disorder of emotion regulation. While less well known than schizophrenia or bipolar disorder (manic-depressive illness), BPD is more common, affecting 2 percent of adults, mostly young women. This new book presents the latest new research in the field
Preface; Genetic Epidemiology of Borderline Personality Disorder; Correlates and Course of Recovery in Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder - A Review; Neurophysiology, Comorbidity and Dimensional Models in Borderline Personality Disorder: Critical Issues for Treatment; Neurobiology of Borderline Personality Disorder: Present State and Future Directions; Proving the Efficiency of Music Psychotherapy with Borderline Adolescents by Means of a Quasi-Experimental Design; A Dissociative Model of Borderline Personality Disorder; Borderline Symptomatology and Empathic Accuracy; Patterns of Interpersonal Behaviors and Borderline Personality Characteristics; Borderline Personality and Somatic Symptomatology; Borderline Personality and Sexual Impulsivity; Index.
