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Summary: Wonderful - Teaches you in laymans terms. Read it in 4 days.
Review: I think this book is great. I bought it on somone elses recommendation and found it interesting, riveting, and so true. It was like reading a book about me - that someone wrote just for me. I think this book is a must for anyone who has been diagnosed with BPD. It gives a glimpse at someones life with BPD. It is easy to read, not a lot of psychological terms, it is written for the everyday average person. It gives you a lot of information and some advice and useful tips. Very highly RECOMMENDED.
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Summary: Very informative and understandable for the neophyte
Review: I thought the book was very easy to read and understand. I have a much better insight in my dealings with a loved one who is borderline. Buy it!
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Summary: A trivialisation of a troubling disorder
Review: I was recommended this as the best book on Borderline Personality Disorder, if this is the best I worry about the worst.The author glosses over the whole subject, providing a facade of an in-depth examination of the disorder. Very little information or analysis is actually presented and that which is there is terribly shallow. The pat 'story' of the treatment of a hypothetical patient is deeply contrived, badly written and rather patronising. It is possible to read this book very quickly to get an overview of the disorder, but I would not expect too much from it. I find it ultimately trivial.
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Summary: Emotionally relieving - little practical application
Review: i'm only half-way through this book, but every time i pick it up i feel a tremendous sense of release. as someone who has been diagnosed with bpd i find this book very comforting, as the author is immeasurably kind in describing the borderline personality. as another reader has said, this book provides an excellent (though contrived and somewhat patronizing) overview of extreme bpd but does not address less-extreme, more functional forms of the illness. i would recommend this book for people who are suffering from bpd and are looking for a compassionate and soothing voice, though not for bpd's looking for practical behavior modifying skills and/or bpd's looking to start treatment.
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Summary: A Definite Must-Read For Any Borderline
Review: If you are someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (as I am), no doubt you are in much pain. Perhaps you've just been diagnosed and are looking for information. Or perhaps you've known you are a borderline for some time, but are wanting to investigate further into the resources available. Whether you suffer from BPD, know someone who does, or work in the mental health system, this book is a MUST read! Breaking the issues down into easily readable chapters, this book covers a large amount of ground. Some items discussed include: the fact that borderlines have very little idea of who or what they are; the unbridled mood swings that accompany this condition; dissociation and comparisons with Multiple Personality Disorder (some feel that these disorders are closely related); that the large majority of borderlines have suffered some sort of abuse (usually sexual) in their lifetime; lack of identity; impulsivities such as sex, shopping, food; information on self-mutilation that is sometimes seen as the "hallmark" of BPD; suicide risk and statistics; anger and intimacy; therapies, including group, individual and specialized (DBT); living with the borderline; is there a cure?; therapists encountering borderlines; and even a list of resources! This book has just about everything you could need on BPD and is in a very easy-to-read format. Well worth the money spent, this is a highly recommended addition to anyone's librbary. :v)
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Summary: Lost in the Mirror is written for people with BPD.
Review: Lost in the Mirror is a journey in the shoes of the person with Borderline Personality Disorder. It is a guide to better understanding the origins of suffering and an inspiration to struggle on. If you are borderline, Lost in the Mirror will help you make sense of your chaotic world and provide a road map to recovery. With easy-to-understand language and an extensive resource section that includes self-help groups, treatment centers, books, newsletters, and experts in the field of treatment, Lost in the Mirror is a valuable tool for anyone close to a borderline patient
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Summary: Reflections on Borderline Personality Disorder
Review: Lost in the Mirror: an inside look at Borderline Personality Disorder was written especially for people with Borderline Personality Disorder, their families, friends, and treating professionals. It provides a clear and non-judgmental framework for understanding the experience and suffering that permeates the world of the person with BPD. It offers a common ground of understanding between patients and treating professionals that can help foster a strong working alliance and ease the power struggles that often undermine treatment. Borderline Personality Disorder afflicts as many as one in ten women and a smaller number of men. People with Borderline Personality Disorder are a tangle of contradictions: cautious and meticulous one moment, recklessly impulsive the next; raging and vindictive one moment, then submissive and contrite; flooded with emotion, then numb to all feeling. Many of the tragic heroes and heroines of fiction and film are examples of Borderline Personality Disorder. A recently published book, Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess by Sally Bedell-Smith, depicts the former Princess of Wales as a victim of this troubling disorder, which reaches into the lives of both the illustrious and the unknown. To be borderline is to resort to a variety of desperate, impulsive behaviors as a quick fix for painful, seemingly endless emotions, such as loneliness, fear, and anger. To be borderline is to see everything in black and white and not in shades of gray. It means adoring someone one moment and despising them the next, feeling nothing in between. It also means feeling special and entitled one moment and deserving only of loathing and punishment the next. Lost in the Mirror peers into a private world on the borders of all human suffering, richly illustrated with case vignettes and with the detailed story of one patient, Sara, from the origins of her illness through her journey to healing. Whether you or a loved one suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder or you are curious about the intricacies of the mind, I expect you will find Lost in the Mirror a thought-provoking and enriching experience.
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Summary: Excuses, not help
Review: Moskowitz's book surprised me as a clinician; its audience is the person diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, not the practitioner. It begins in a good tone, but becomes a "helpful" excuse for the borderline personality's invasive and hurtful behaviors.
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Summary: Poor understanding of DID/MPD
Review: Readers who have BPD may love this book. Those of us who have (or had) MPD/DID will find the comparisons between BPD and MPD rather poorly defined and described. The essential feature of BPD is instability in interpersonal relationships. The essential feature of DID is the coexistence of two or more personalities. Drawing comparisons between these diagnoses is silly--more so than comparing the moon and the earth because both are round, have craters, and fly through space. I wouldn't recommend this book.
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Summary: very good
Review: simple style ,clear,
for borderline people and for (espesially) those who knows them and suffer from them.
very easy to read.
not too heavy.
quite interesting.
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