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Title: The Angry Heart: Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders : An Interactive Self-Help Guide by Ph.D. Joseph Santoro, Ph.D. Ronald Cohen, Ronald Jay Cohen ISBN: 1-57224-080-6 Publisher: New Harbinger Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (18 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: I Use This Book In My Professional Practice
Comment: As a mental health therapist, I use this book for one of my groups for Borderline Personality Disorder. The exercises in the book are excellent, and the Group members are able to relate to the book and each other. Excellent book!
Rating: 5
Summary: Not just for Borderlines!
Comment: While struggling to comprehend a loved one's diagnosis of BPD, this volume offered me hands-down the most insightful, productive and forwards-oriented information on the disorder (and all addictive behaviors) I could find on the market.
In contrast to some of the other popular informational BPD volumes out there (Kreisman's 'I Hate You, Don't Leave Me,' etc), I found Santoro's work to be packed with strategies, self-work exercises, and cognitive interventions that point the way towards the future, rather than reiterating the standard cliches about the hopelessly entrenched nature of this personality disorder.
His conceptual framework of working through various "zones" of recovery is a very handy paradigm in a field where much of the therapeutic literature is presented more statically.
'The Angry Heart' was the book that finally convinced the person with BPD in my life to seek appropriate therapeutic & psychopharmaceutical treatment, and this, in my lay opinion, is worth gold.
In addition, it is one of the few that also speaks to ADULT MEN who receive this diagnosis - there's a refreshing dearth of the unicorns and rainbows one sees in much of the other BPD self-help literature that's oriented towards younger women (who make up the majority population diagnosed with BPD in the USA at the moment). It's certainly not gender-limited, however.
As someone who runs a large resources web site on BPD, I have met a number of BPD sufferers who have used the program laid out in this volume with great success, either alone or in conjunction with professional counselling, and that anecdotal information really speaks for itself. Granted, this is not an easy read for Borderlines, and the program is tough - but if you stick with it, SO effective for creating real life change.
Excellent! If you have encountered BPD in any context in your life, I highly recommend The Angry Heart.
If you have a loved one with BPD, I strongly advise getting Kreger/Mason's 'Stop Walking on Eggshells' in conjunction with this book.
Helen
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Rating: 5
Summary: RISE ABOVE YOUR RAISING - MOOD DISORDERS & ANGER
Comment: I strongly recommend this book for anyone seeking to find help with mood disorders, any type of addiction, identity issues, self-esteem issues, reoccurring unresolved anger and troubling relationship issues.
Excellent compliments to this book are: Treating Attachment Disorders: From Theory to Therapy by Karl Heinz Brisch and Kenneth Kronenberg; Living with the Passive-Aggressive Man by Scott Wetzler; The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment by Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman and Robert Pressman; Emotional Blackmail: When People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier; Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship by Christine Ann Lawson; Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents by Nina Brown; Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job by Alan Cavaiola and Neil Lavender.
And if you want to pursue the subject even further, you may be interested in reading The Narcissistic / Borderline Couple: A Psychoanalytic Perspective On Marital Treatment.
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