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Title: New Hope for People with Borderline Personality Disorder: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions by Neil R. Bockian, Nora Elizabeth Villagran, Valerie Porr ISBN: 0-7615-2572-6 Publisher: Prima Lifestyles Pub. Date: 25 June, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A good consumer book
Comment: Borderline Personality disorder is a difficult problem to understand and to treat. This book is very good for the consumer to get an overall view of many different approaches to treatment and how to select a competent therapist. I did think that the author was biased toward psychologists and psychological testing. There are many highly trained licensed therapists at the master's level who can offer excellent help.
Rating: 2
Summary: Informative but Disappointing
Comment: This book is loaded with an abundance of information and list of resources. If you are reading it for that purpose, you?ve found a gold mind.
I bought this book hoping to find new concrete help for family members of those with bpd. I was disappointed.
The chapter for the family started great, but stopped too soon. Also, the book appeared to contradict itself when it denounced boundary setting by family members when it had suggested some great books on boundaries in the self-help chapter.
I found the book, Imperfect Harmony by Coleman, to repeat the good points of the New Hope. However, that book went beyond this one with depth, compassion, challenging questions for reflection, and concrete steps. He points out the benefits of his advice for both the spouse suffering from a mental illness such as BPD as well as their spouse and their children.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good in parts
Comment: This is an excellent overview of a difficult subject, and, as a professional in the field I enjoyed it and learned from it. As a self-help book for patients I thought it was too technical in parts. Some studies of treatment are described at length complete with their statistics. The authors are somewhat inconsistent in their demands for rigorous proof of treatment efficacy. Alternative therapies, homeopathy, and things like the Feingold diet are described in a credulous way. They are also uncritical about projective tests.
They quote DSMIV as if it was brought down from Mt Sinai by Moses. Much of what it says about personality disorders is dubious. In fact. to be honest, some of these conditions are closer to misbehavior than to illness, but I suppose that's too philosophical an issue for a book like this to deal with.
They should have mentioned hotlines in their discussion of suicide.
The descriptions of etiology obscure the fact that most findings are fuzzy and inconclusive. They say the parents are not to blame then state that "studies have shown that approximately two-thirds to three-quarters of people with BPD have a history of being abused sexually."
I thought Chapter 3 (Psychotherapy) was the best, with lucid explanations of the different approaches and a good summary of Linehan's work. There are very useful appendixes with referral sources and WEB sites.
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