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Borderline : the biography of a personality disorder / Alexander Kriss, PhD.
Van Pelt Library RC569.5.B67 K75 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kriss, Alexander, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borderline personality disorder--Popular works.
- Borderline personality disorder.
- Borderline personality disorder--History.
- Borderline personality disorder--Patients.
- Borderline personality disorder--Patients--Anecdotes.
- Kriss, Alexander.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects the conventional wisdom that the condition is untreatable and those diagnosed with it are "difficult," told by a psychologist who specializes in BPD"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: collective psychosis
- Prehistory: the first session
- Splits, hysteria, and the invention of psychotherapy: Fifth Century BCE-1885 CE
- Psychic death: sessions, weeks 2-19
- Seduction and fantasy: 1896-1923
- Fears: sessions, months 6-10
- Confusion of the tongues: 1908-1933
- Love: sessions, months 10-12
- Identity crises: 1939-1980
- Self-discovery: sessions, year 2
- Diffusion: 1973-2011
- Normality: sessions, year 3
- Integration: 1980-2023
- Borderline: sessions, year 6.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780807007815
- 0807007811
- OCLC:
- 1392164082
- Publisher Number:
- 99996404992
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