Books & Research

Books

The High Conflict Couple

Alan E Fruzzetti,., Ph.D., 2006, ISBN: 9781572244504

Navigate emotional storms with proven DBT techniques. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, readers can learn how to de-escalate conflict situations before they have a chance to flare into serious fights. Other techniques help partners in a relationship disclose their personal fears and vulnerabilities and validate one another's experiences.

Loving Someone with BPD

Shari Y Manning, 2011, ISBN: 9781593856076

Dr. Shari Manning helps you understand why your spouse, family member, or friend has such out-of-control emotions and how to change the way you can respond. Learn to use simple yet powerful strategies that can defuse crises, establish better boundaries, and radically transform your relationship. Empathic, hopeful, and science based, this is the first book for family and friends grounded in dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), the most effective treatment for BPD.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook

Daniel Fox, 2019, ISBN: 9781684032730

Introducing a breakthrough, integrative approach to managing your borderline personality disorder (BPD). If you've been diagnosed with BPD you may feel a number of emotions - including shock, shame, sadness, abandonment, emptiness, or even anger. Even worse, you may be tempted to research your diagnosis online, only to find doomsday scenarios and terrible prognoses everywhere you click. Take a deep breath. You can get through this - and this workbook will help guide you.

Borderline Personality Disorder in Adolescents

Blaise A Aguirre, 2014, ISBN: 9781592336494

Offers parents, caregivers, and adolescents themselves a complete understanding of this complex and tough-to-treat disorder. It is a comprehensive guide which thoroughly explains what BPD is and what a patient's treatment options are, including an overview of the revolutionary new treatment called DBT.

Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity

Imi Lo, 2018, ISBN: 9781473656031

Learn how to cope with intense feelings, and discover how to use your sensitivity, empathy and intelligence to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity will give you in-depth information about this trait, as well as practical exercises and strategies to help with your daily struggles.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide

Alexander L. Chapman, 2008, ISBN: 9781593856076

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide is organized as a series of answers to questions common to BPD sufferers: What is BPD? How long does it last? What other problems co-occur with BPD? Overviews what we currently know about BPD make up the first section of the book. Later chapters cover several common treatment approaches.

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified

Dr Robert O. Friedel, Linda F. Cox, Karin Friedel, 2018, ISBN: 9780738220246

Dr. Robert O. Friedel, a leading expert in BPD and a pioneer in its treatment, Friedel has turned his vast experience into a useful, supportive guide. The book helps readers to understand the underlying causes of BPD, the course it takes, challenges of reaching an accurate diagnosis, treatment options, and coping strategies.

When Your Daughter Has BPD

Daniel S. Lobel, 2018, ISBN: 9781626259560

In this important guide, you'll learn real solutions and strategies based in proven-effective DBT and CBT to help you weather the storm of BPD and restore a sense of normalcy and balance in your life. You'll find an overview of BPD so you can better understand the driving forces behind difficult behavior.

Research portals and articles

Harvard Health Publishing

What is borderline personality disorder?

NIMH

Borderline Personality Disorder.

Frontiers.org

Twenty years of research on borderline personality disorder: a scientometric analysis of hotspots, bursts, and research trends.

verywellmind.com

Borderline Personality Disorder

Also known as BPD.