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Author:   Russell Meares
Publisher:   WW Norton & Co
Imprint:   WW Norton & Co
Volume:   0
Dimensions:   Width: 16.80cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   0.820kg
ISBN:  

9780393705850

ISBN 10:   0393705854
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   02 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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From PTSD and borderline personality to distancing procedures and emotional responses to trauma, this is packed with insights any analyst can use.

From PTSD and borderline personality to distancing procedures and emotional responses to trauma, this is packed with insights any analyst can use. -- Midwest Book Review [A] fascinating and easy-to-read book, by an author with broad clinical experience and scholarship, who has been working with patients with BPD for over 30 years and has conducted an amazing number of empirical studies in this field. . . . The history of dissociation . . . is presented in a fascinating way, intermingled with sketches of patients treated by the author. This blending of historical and clinical knowledge will make the book interesting for both researchers and clinicians. . . . I would recommend this volume to both psychiatrists and psychotherapists. -- Journal of Psychiatric Practice These two companion volumes together make a remarkable and original contribution to the theoretical and clinical literature on borderline personality disorder (BPD). . . . [T]his is the most comprehensive, evidence-based, and theoretically integrated model of BPD that I have read. -- Journal of Analytical Psychology This new book by Meares is a significant contribution to the BPD field, and reinforces the importance of narrative telling in the co-creation of self and other within psychotherapy. -- Psychotherapy in Australia Meares does an excellent job of integrating the relevant brain/neuroscience research . . . There are compelling hypotheses drawn . . . very thought-provoking. . . . I would recommend these two books to anyone who works with borderline patients. . . . [O]utstanding for the researcher/theoretician and is thought-provoking for the clinician as well. -- The National Psychologist

This excellent book, the culmination of a distinguished career, is vital for anyone seeking to understand the extreme mental suffering of what we currently call BPD. Drawing from neuroscience, historical scholarship, psychological research, and clinical observation, Russell Meares offers an erudite, compassionate account of the 'painful incoherence' at the heart of this disorder. By synthesizing both left- and right-brain data into a useful narrative, which is also a pleasure to read, he demonstrates on a grand scale the integrative process that nourishes us all and agonizingly eludes individuals with borderline psychologies. --Nancy Williams, PhD, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology

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Russell Meares is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Sydney University. He lives in Australia.

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