Borderline personality is one of the most confusing and controversial psychiatric disorders. The author cuts through that confusion with his clear, sensible discussion of the development of the borderline concept, of the diagnosis of personality disorder, and of competency-based treatment.

The Challenge of the Borderline Patient: Competency in Diagnosis and Treatment

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Kroll, Jerome

Mental Health

W.W.Norton&Company

Taking into account ambiguities in the relationship between childhood abuse experiences, formation of self- destructive personality styles, and subsequent psychotherapy, the author presents a working model that is useful without limiting the practitioner. Text for psychotherapists examining the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult borderline personality disorder, with emphasis on symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

PTSD/Borderlines in Therapy: Finding the Balance

A fascinating collaboration between a medieval historian and a professor of psychiatry, this enthralling book applies modern biological and psychological research findings to the lives of medieval mystics and ascetics. Drawing upon a database of over 1,400 medieval holy persons and in-depth studies of individual saints, this illuminating study examines the relationship between medieval mystical experiences, the religious practices of mortification; laceration of the flesh, sleep deprivation and extreme starvation, and how these actions produced altered states of consciousness and brain function in the heroic ascetics. Examining and disputing much contemporary writing about the political and gender motivations in the medieval quest for a closeness with God, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in medieval religion or the effects of self-injurious behaviour on the mind.

The Mystic Mind: The Psychology of Medieval Mystics and Ascetics

History

Bachrach, Bernard

Europe

Routledge

The Mystic Mind

This book is psychiatry's reply to the diverse group of antipsychiatrists, including Laing, Foucault, Goffman, Szasz and Bassaglia, that has made fashionable the view that mental illness is merely socially deviant behaviour and that psychiatrists are agents of the capitalist society seeking to repress such behaviour. It establishes, by the use of evidence from historical and transcultural studies, that mental illness has been recognized in all cultures since the beginning of history and goes on to explore the philosophical and medical basis for psychiatry's diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Finally, it tackles two issues where psychiatry has been seen as at odds with the values prevailing in society: involuntary hospitalization and the insanity defence. The Reality of Mental Illness does not pretend to offer simple answers to the complex problems it discusses, but will leave the reader with a much greater understanding of psychiatry's aims, practices and problems.

The Reality of Mental Illness

Science & Math

Roth, Martin

History & Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

Medical Books

Medicine

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