Lost in the Mirror An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder

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Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Taylor Trade Publishing
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Summary

Explores the frightening world of BPD patients and helps readers understand their pain.

Author Biography

Dr. Richard A. Moskovitz earned both his undergraduate degree and his M.D. at Harvard University. After psychiatric residency at Chapel Hill and eight years on the University of Florida College of Medicine faculty, where he was an associate professor, he has spent the past fifteen years in private practice. Dr. Moskovitz has appeared on ABC's Prime Time Live and on A and E's The Unexplained. He resides in Ocala, Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
Preface to the Second Edition xv
Dear Reader
1(4)
Candles in the Wind
5(8)
When She Is Good
13(8)
A House Divided
21(8)
Suffer the Little Children: Origins of Borderline Personality Disorder
29(10)
Crimes Without Punishment/Punishment Without Crimes
39(10)
The Beginning of Symptoms
49(6)
In the Looking Glass: Who Looks Back?
55(8)
Impulse: Filling up an Empty Shell
63(8)
Rescuing the Angel Within: Understanding Self-Mutilation
71(6)
Suicide: Dying Without Death
77(10)
Being in Treatment
87(10)
Hospitalization
97(8)
Group Therapy
105(6)
Drug Therapy
111(14)
Healing: Controlling Impulses
125(10)
When You Are Angry
135(8)
Intimacy: Managing Emotional Distance
143(8)
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Living with a Borderline Person
151(8)
Beyond Survival: Is There a Cure?
159(6)
Am I My Patient's Keeper: The Dilemma of Treating People with Borderline Personality Disorder
165(12)
Epilogue 177(2)
Appendix A: Newer Psychological Treatments 179(12)
Appendix B: Resources 191(8)
Index 199

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