Dana Becker

Through The Looking Glass (eBook, PDF)

Women And Borderline Personality Disorder

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the relationship between gender, the experience of psychological distress that we currently call borderline personality disorder, and the borderline diagnosis as a classification of psychiatric disorder. It offers a new emphasis on elements of female socialization as critical to the understanding of

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429964206
• Artikelnr.: 56862065

Autorenporträt

Dana Becker is Clinical Supervisor of Family Therapy at the Center for Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse at Temple University. She maintains a private practice in both Philadelphia and Rosemont, Pennsylvania, specializing in the treatment of women and families.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Prologue: "Borderline" Women Among the Mentally Ill
From Witchcraft to Hysteria to BPD: A Brief History of Female Insanity
Women and Madness: A Historical View
A "Chattering
Canting Age
" Two Women's Histories: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Alice James
Taxonomy as Destiny? The Birth of Labels
"Mad" Women and "Bad" Men
Mental Illness and Labeling Theory: Are We Blaming the Victim?
Gender Roles
Mental Illness
and the Price of Deviance
Psychiatry's Family Bible: DSM
The Clinical Realities of Naming and Diagnosis
The Personality Disorders: Prevalence and Politics
Gender Bias in Diagnosis
The Rise and Fall of the Borderline Concept
Object Relations
Developmental Arrest
and the Borderline Syndrome
Critiques of Theoretical Formulations
Toward an Etiology of Borderline Symptomatology
Biology as Destiny? Abuse Traumata and Psychological Distress
The BPD/PTSD Controversy: Who's on First?
Development of the Self
Developmental Psychopathology and the Borderline Disorder
Through the Looking Glass: Female Socialization and Personality Disorder
In the Looking Glass
A Case of Privileged Meaning: The Reification of Autonomy
Continuities and Discontinuities in Women's Coming of Age
Anger
Dependency
and Fear: Women at the Border
Member of the Wedding
Autonomy Revisited: Personality Disorder and Ideas About Autonomy
Anger
Dependency
and Personality Disorder
"Borderline" Self-Destructiveness and Therapeutic Breakdown
Self-Injury and BPD
Borderline Women and the Dialogue of Suicide
Treatment at the Border
Notes
References
About the Book and Author
Index