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Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice | 
 enlarge | Author: Joel Paris
Publisher: The Guilford Press
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 313559
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1593858345
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85852
EAN: 9781593858346
ASIN: 1593858345
Publication Date: July 7, 2008
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Product Description
Organizing a vast body of scientific literature, this indispensable book presents the state of the art in understanding borderline personality disorder (BPD) and distills key treatment principles that therapists need to know. Rather than advocating a particular approach, Joel Paris examines a range of therapies and identifies the core ingredients of effective intervention. He offers specific guidance for meeting the needs of this challenging population, including ways to improve diagnosis, promote emotion regulation and impulse control, maintain appropriate therapeutic boundaries, and deal with suicidality and other crises. Highly readable, practical, and humane, the book also explains the latest thinking on the causes and course of BPD.
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Excellent Overview - and Hope August 28, 2008
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This is an excellent review of what has been shown to work and what clearly does not in the treatment of this awful disease. Unlike other books on BP that are aimed at practitioners and are so dense with jargon they are unintelligible, this one is accessible to people without a psych PhD. It should be very useful to families of BP patients in assessing the effectiveness of their loved one's treatment and therapist. I particularly appreciate the author's unequivocal condemnation of psychotropic drugs, which have not been shown to be of significant help for BP patients and often make things worse. I watched the pills wrench my beautiful, talented daughter from an adolescent depression into a manic breakdown and a horrifying descent into BPD, psychosis and personality disintegration. She is now in the earliest stage of recovery, thanks to a hard-nosed therapist (trained in object relations) and large doses of brain-supporting supplements. In fact, my one disappointment with Paris' book is that it doesn't sufficiently address nutritional therapies in recovering from BPD. I assume that good data just does not exist yet. My hope is that someone will be able to correct this glaring omission in the near future. Fish oil, anyone?
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