Lost in the Mirror An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder

by Maskovitz, Richard, M.D.

• ISBN13: 9780878332663
• ISBN10: 0878332669
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781589794962
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
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Summary

Explores the frightening world of BPD patients and helps readers understand their pain.

Author Biography

Dr. Richard A. Moskovitz earned both his undergraduate degree and his M.D. at Harvard University. After psychiatric residency at Chapel Hill and eight years on the University of Florida College of Medicine faculty, where he was an associate professor, he has spent the past fifteen years in private practice. Dr. Moskovitz has appeared on ABC's Prime Time Live and on A and E's The Unexplained. He resides in Ocala, Florida.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface to the First Edition	xi
Preface to the Second Edition	xv
Dear Reader	1	(4)
Candles in the Wind	5	(8)
When She Is Good	13	(8)
A House Divided	21	(8)
Suffer the Little Children: Origins of Borderline Personality Disorder	29	(10)
Crimes Without Punishment/Punishment Without Crimes	39	(10)
The Beginning of Symptoms	49	(6)
In the Looking Glass: Who Looks Back?	55	(8)
Impulse: Filling up an Empty Shell	63	(8)
Rescuing the Angel Within: Understanding Self-Mutilation	71	(6)
Suicide: Dying Without Death	77	(10)
Being in Treatment	87	(10)
Hospitalization	97	(8)
Group Therapy	105	(6)
Drug Therapy	111	(14)
Healing: Controlling Impulses	125	(10)
When You Are Angry	135	(8)
Intimacy: Managing Emotional Distance	143	(8)
Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Living with a Borderline Person	151	(8)
Beyond Survival: Is There a Cure?	159	(6)
Am I My Patient's Keeper: The Dilemma of Treating People with Borderline Personality Disorder	165	(12)
Epilogue	177	(2)
Appendix A: Newer Psychological Treatments	179	(12)
Appendix B: Resources	191	(8)
Index	199