Tag: book reviews
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Review: Borderline Personality Disorder: In Our Own Words
Full title: Borderline Personality Disorder: In Our Own Words – An Educational Resource From Emotions Matter, Inc. This is a spiral-bound booklet produced by Emotions Matter. Inside, you’ll find lots of great information as well as personal stories by five people with BPD. There are many excellent resources throughout the book. I think you will…
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Book Review: Bullied
Full title: “Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher and Kid Needs to Know About Ending The Cycle of Fear” by Carrie Goldman I loved this book! Especially this part: “Kesha Burch-Sims…in her Chicago-based clinical psychology practice…told me…’Victims have prolonged difficulty with their own identities and how to fit in and socialize appropriately. They learn behaviors to…
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Book Review – Soothe Yourself: Learning Emotional Self-Regulation
Full title: “Soothe Yourself: Learning Emotional Self-Regulation: For People with Anxiety, Depression, NPD, BPD, IED, SPD, Bipolar, ADHD, ASPD, AVPD, and ASD (Transcend Mediocrity Book 88)” Kindle Edition I have this book on Kindle and audiobook download. I have just read the Kindle version. It is really good. It talks a lot about where emotional…
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Book Review: “Stronger Than BPD” by Debbie Corso
Full title: “Stronger Than BPD: The Girl’s Guide to Taking Control of Intense Emotions, Drama and Chaos Using DBT” by Debbie Corso. Foreword by Gillian Galen, Psy D. I read the Kindle version of this book and finished it in one day. I could not stop reading it! Debbie shares Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) skills,…
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Book Review: Walking The Borderline: The Psychology Patient
By Karen Marrs. Mrs. Marrs is a fascinating woman. She has been through an awful lot but is managing to live with Borderline Personality Disorder. She runs a blog called Walking The Borderline at: http://www.walkingtheborderline.com I won’t spoil the book for you by telling you everything that happens but I will say that if I…
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Book Review: “Coping With BPD”
Full title: “Coping with BPD: DBT and CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder” by Blaise Aguirre, MD and Gillian Galen, PsyD. Foreword by Alec Miller, PsyD. What I really liked about this book is the sections that show what each item looks like in real life. There are a few items…
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Book Review – The Angry Heart
Full title: “The Angry Heart: Overcoming Borderline and Addictive Disorders” by Joseph Santoro, Ph.D. and Ronald Cohen, Ph.D. This is a pretty good book. My favourite parts were the stories of “Samuel” interspersed throughout each chapter. (The name has been changed to protect his identity.) This book has information that the authors have come up with…
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Book Review: “Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope”
By Francis Mark Mondimore, M.D., and Patrick Kelly, M.D. This book goes into great detail about many aspects of BPD. It talks about what personality is, and what personality disorders are. It goes over what the causes and treatments for BPD are, including medication and different types of therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, including Dialectical…
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Book Review: “Borderline Personality Disorder Explained”
E-book by Martin Guessmann. This book is not too bad for a brief overview of BPD. There were quite a few typos. It had a pretty good description of the symptoms/criteria. It didn’t portray Borderlines in a negative light, which is good. The author has provided some resources at the end of the book, which…
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BOOK REVIEW: “Object Permanence and Borderline Personality Disorder”
E-book by Dr. Robert Fischer, M.D., Paul Sanbar and Rebecca Deleon. Dr. Fischer is the Executive Director of the Optimum Performance Institute / Roanne Program. This book uses a mirror analogy to explain Object Permanence. It is a very good analogy. Reading this short e-book will help you understand the idea of Object Permanence…
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