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Summary: I Love This Book, It's About Me!
Review: I read this book avidly, and it made me think of my own life. I've written about the subject of borderline personalities extensively and consider myself an authority. Why? Because I suffer from it. The way I deal with my disorder is to rant and rave about my ex-spouse-it's easier to accuse her of having a borderline personality than to deal with my own issues. I've been publishing a lot about the topic on my own website, though most people have told me that I have no evidence for my claims.
You see, I have been hurt. Badly hurt. I was abused as a young child, and it helped make me into the emotionally and physically abusive person that I am today. When I was married, I could use my spouse as my psychological screen, my punching bag. When she didn't want to play that role anymore, I lost out bigtime. Boy, I now wish I'd gone into therapy earlier. Are you intrigued? Visit me on the web under my name.
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Summary: Wow!!
Review: I run a group for women's wellness and we cover these chapters together, finding the open conversation and homework worth it's weight in gold. The progress over the past fue months is eye opening, I really see a difference in the ladies I work with. Getting past the behaviors that bind them to the"BODERLINE ZONE" and breaking the old mith that there is no CURE for BPD. It really helps to do this program in a group setting. The group is able to experance how it feels for others. This has been a wonderful experence personally and profesionally. I say to do this workbook as a group or with a friend.
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Summary: RISE ABOVE YOUR RAISING - MOOD DISORDERS & ANGER
Review: I strongly recommend this book for anyone seeking to find help with mood disorders, any type of addiction, identity issues, self-esteem issues, reoccurring unresolved anger and troubling relationship issues. Excellent compliments to this book are: Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy by Karl Heinz Brisch and Kenneth Kronenberg; Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man by Scott Wetzler; The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman; Emotional Blackmail: When People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier; Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson; Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents by Nina Brown; Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job by Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender. And if you want to pursue the subject even further, you may be interested in reading The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Marital Treatment.
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Summary: SAMUEL LIVES!
Review: I would just like to say that I if you do buy this book you will see that you are not the only person suffering from BPD. So do I, and I want to talk to you about it. In The Angry Heart, I share my real life experiences with you. I believe that talking to somebody who has had the same experiences is the best way of healing and dealing with the everyday struggle that we all go through one way or another.
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Summary: A good self-help guide for people with BPD
Review: My husband has found this book to be extremely helpful in coping with his BPD. The Angry Heart provides a reality check for people with BPD and helpful suggestions for overcoming the rage and other destructive behaviors.
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Summary: The Regimen of Healing
Review: Personality disorders are a relatively new diagnostic area. The ICD-10 (the equivalent of the DSM-IV) doesn't even recognize some of them as separate disorders (e.g., the Narcissistic Personality Disorder). Others are controversial even in the USA (Borderline, Antisocial, Schizotypal). Textbooks are, therefore, of limited use to both practitioners and sufferers. Sorely needed are self-help books that guide the perplexed through a regimen of exercises and coping strategies, an interactive framework which rests on current knowledge, and an organizing principle to tie it all together. This book offers all three abundantly. It is bound to be of help to therapists, self-help groups, victims of the disorder, and their nearest and dearest. Sam Vaknin, author of "Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited".
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Summary: Read a SAMPLE of the book at slshealth.com
Review: Since the book was released I've received hundreds of emails from its readers. Virtually all have found it to be of enormous help to them. When emailer wrote: "I was seriously abused by my father since the age of eight until 18. All I can say is after (and also during) reading your book all I could do is cry!...Someone finally figured me out!!!!...I now understand myself so much more."
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Summary: Excellent self-study for borderlines
Review: Some persons with BPD really cannot use therapy very well, and in many parts of the country--outside the NYC and San Francisco and a couple of other major urban centers--it is hard to find therapists who really know how to work with borderlines. Indeed, many therapists don't even recognize BPD when it's right in front of them, especially if the borderline is talented (as so many are) at knowing what the therapist wants to see in order to think well of him or her. Especially when a very smart BPD, having spent a lifetime at pleasing authority figures and cajoling them into the role of caretaker, encounters a rather less smart therapist, the stage is set for a folie a deux, with the therapist ratifying the patient's pathology and falling into something like the role of worshipful caretaker. Thus, self-study is sometimes the best route for the BPD who is serious about getting better. Self-study is always helpful for the BPD, even the BPD who has a savvy therapist--that is, a therapist who does not want to be a hero or the sole source of help. (If your therapist doesn't like the idea of your doing self-guided study, run.) For that purpose, too, this book is excellent. The authors have constructed some absolutely brilliant exercises, and they guide you through the kind of structured work that BPD's need in order to acquire inner order in place of their terrified chaos. If you're a therapist who works with BPD's, look at this book as something you might want to suggest that your patients buy and use in conjunction with therapy. If you are, or have reason to suspect, you suffer BPD, have a look--especially if therapy hasn't worked so well for you. In my experience as a therapist, I found that patients with BPD are often the most intelligent, gifted, and tragically damaged of patients--but that precisely because their inner lives are so chaotic, they are better able to acquire good structure than "more functional" patients who had well-developed maladaptive structures already in place. Taking apart a long-reinforced structure is very hard, while building from chaos is, in a sense, free of that task. This book can help with finding authentic structure, in an autonomous process that minimizes some of the dangers of BPD-in-therapy. I have come to believe that two things, not taught in textbooks, indicate whether a BPD can get well: courage and a good heart. If you have those things, you should never let anyone, therapist or otherwise, discourage you from the path to a whole, integrated life. If you have those, buy this book at help yourself toward a life free of the horrors of your early days.
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Summary: Healing psychological trauma is the key to recovery.
Review: The Angry Heart was written to help heal people with addictions, childhood trauma and personality disorder. It is easy to read and it can help you begin to heal yourself. It is based on the treatment approach we use at my residential and outpatient treatment centers.Dr. Joe Santoro
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Summary: Very informative and helpful book!
Review: This book packs more information than any other book I have read on the subject (and I have read all I can find). The Recovery Journal that is suggested you complete and other exercises were very healing. I would highly recommend this book for anyone suffering from BPD and/or their family members.
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