I Hate You, Don't Leave Me : Understanding the Borderline Personality
Author: Jerold J. Kreisman, Hal Straus
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ISBN: 0380713055
Publisher: Avon (01 February, 1991)
Sales Rank: 430
Average Customer Rating: 3.66 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 3 out of 5
Don't pick this as your first BPD book!
I am Patty Pheil of Borderline Personality Disorder Today. This book, as far as I know is the first book about the BPD written for the consumer. The book in and of itself is excellent and filled with good information. However, many borderlines have felt suicidal after reading this book if this is the first book they read about the BPD. Why? Simply because this book was written awhile back before much was known about how certain medications can be extremely helpful with many of the BPD symptoms such as rage, depression, mood swings, etc. Therefore the book was written with good information but the aspect of hope and recovery is not in this book. One feels hopeless after reading this book. This was the first book I read about the BPD and that is how I felt - more disturbed and hopeless. This is not the author's fault however. He simply wrote the book at a time where there wasn't much known about treatment. It would be great to have this great information along with the new drug treatment in a new edition.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Great book for its time but outdated and needs updating
Borderline personality disorder has levels of prevalence, social dysfunction, health care utilization, and chronicity that make its public health significance similar to that of other major psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression, yet it has not received comparable attention.This was one of the first books offered to the broader public, and as such deserves its place in the BPD literature.
Borderline personality disorder often leaves those who become intimately involved feeling guilty, helpless, and like they have personally failed. For an excellent example of this sense captured in a book, read Walker's THE SIREN'S DANCE: MY MARRIAGE TO A BORDERLINE, which also has clinical appendices discussing DBT, etc.
Both of these books will give the reader a great understaning of this very complicated and hard to treat condition.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Good read for non-BPDer
I like non-fiction books. I received this paper back edition as a gift from an acquaintance. I never knew about the disorder before receiving the book. After reading it, I was motivated to look the illness up on a medical search engine. I learned there has been research done recently testing a medication for it and that there are certain neurological abnormalities in the body of a sufferer. I can say with confidence that this book is a good read for a non-BPDer. Similar Products
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