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Borderline Personality Disorder Doctor Resources for Clinicians Who Treat BPD

Tami strongly feels that it is important to find the best, most accurate and positive resources to get you quickly pointed down the right path to BPD recovery, or to understanding how to live with and support someone with this disorder. These are "Hall of Famers" that she recommends you take a look at.

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Borderline Personality Books

Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment (Social Work in Mental Health) by Dr. Perry D Hoffman (Author), Penny Steiner-Grossman (Author). This book brings together over two dozen of the field's leading experts in one enlightening text that offers providers a view of Borderline Personality Disorder from the sufferers themselves as a way to understand the experiences of family members who are often devastated by their relatives' struggles with this common disorder.

Mentalization-based Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide, by Dr. Anthony Bateman (Author) and Dr. Peter Fonagy (Author), the developers of Mentalization-based Treatment, present the foundations of their research and the practical application of the treatment that has been studied and well documented in research trials for the its effectiveness in treating Borderline Personality Disorder.

Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments in Psychiatry. Dr. Glen O.Gabbard's Textbook of Psychotherapeutic Treatments is a timely and valuable antidote to the common current belief that medication is the panacea for psychiatric patients. Covering theory, technique, indications and efficacy... The rich examples and vignettes, evidence-based efficacy data and additional sections on combined treatments provide a road map for clinicians and are a boon to the field. (Review courtesy of Lisa A. Mellman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry.)

Borderline Patients: Extending The Limits Of Treatability (Basic Behavioral Science) by Dr. Harold W. Koenigsberg (Author), Dr. Otto F. Kernberg (Author), Dr. Michael H. Stone (Author), Dr. Ann H. Appelbaum (Author), Dr. Frank E. Yeomans (Author). Borderline conditions are a growing presence in the treatment room, yet they are uncommonly resistant to treatment. Dr. Kernberg and his colleagues have already articulated the modality they call Transference-Focused Psychotherapy. Now, in an unusually textured elaboration, they confront the complications that limit treatability-co-existing psychopathologies, early trauma/dissociation, problems endemic to the therapeutic situation (attachment disturbances, erotic transferences)-and bring new rounds of clinical ammunition to meet those challenges.

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents: A Complete Guide to Understanding and Coping When Your Adolescent Has BPD by Dr. Blaise A. Aguirre (Author) offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat disorder. It thoroughly explains what it is and what a patient's treatment options are. Dr. Aguirre describes recent advances in borderline personality disorder treatments and brings into focus what we do and don't know about this condition. He explains the most advanced techniques available, including the revolutionary new treatment called dialectic behavior therapy.

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD (Paperback) by Dr. Robert Friedel (Author)l. The emotional instability, impulsive behavior and impaired reasoning that often characterize Borderline Personality Disorder can thus be controlled with therapy and medication, though Friedel also stresses the importance of the patient's taking responsibility for following through on treatment. For readers who suspect that they or someone they love suffers from Borderline Personality Disorder, this guide is a good place to start learning how to find help.

The High Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation by Dr. Alan E., Ph.D. Fruzzetti (Author), Dr. Marsha M. Linehan (Foreword.) In this book, you will learn a powerful set of emotion regulation tools. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you’ll learn how to deescalate conflict situations before they have a chance to flare into serious fights. Ultimately, you'll learn how to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and how to find true acceptance and closeness with your partner.

Borderline Personality Organizations

National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder. NEA-BPD seeks to "Advance the BPD Agenda" by raising public awareness of Borderline Personality Disorder, providing education, and promoting research about borderline personality disorder through a variety of programs. For example, with partial funding from a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), NEA-BPD has hosted over 30 conferences worldwide, featuring internationally recognized BPD researchers and scientists.

Behavioral Tech, LLC, founded by Dr. Marsha Linehan, trains mental health care providers and treatment teams who work with complex and severely disordered populations to use compassionate, scientifically valid treatments and to implement and evaluate these treatments in their practice setting.

Want to know more about the experience of someone who has successfully recovered from Borderline Personality Disorder? You may want to read:

Helping Someone You Love Recover From Borderline Personality Disorder

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