Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook and Personal Journal [Spiral-bound]

Laura Paxton (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 096756140X | ISBN-13: 978-0967561400 | Publication Date: September 14, 1999

This book offers a creative and innovative program for Borderline Personality Disorder(BPD) through instruction in the coping skills essential to long-term recovery.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Individuals with the Borderline Personality Disorder need many things for a happy and successful life. Medication and counseling alone will not work. Reality perception regularly gets impaired, ruining relationships and many other areas of a borderline's life. Awareness of symptoms, clarifying perceptions, and taking responsibility for one's life are all crucial. Laura Paxton's book Borderline and Beyond is enormously helpful - no matter what kind of therapy is being used. It will be helpful for those not in treatment as well. It is a wonderful workbook teaching specific techniques and educating borderlines about many aspects of their diagnosis. I highly encourage everyone with the BPD to use this book as a guide. Leland M. Heller, M.D. Author Life at the Border - Understanding and Recovering from the Borderline Personality Disorder and Biological Unhappiness -- Leland M. Heller, M.D.

Laura Paxton has written a new book entitled "Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder." I have had the pleasure of reading the "downloadable" version of her book and was totally delighted! It is an excellent book that I recommend to all that suffer from this disorder. Laura seems to have great insight into the thoughts, feelings and behavior of this disorder and has set up an excellent plan for recovery." -- Patty Johnson, MSW The Borderline Sanctuary

About the Author

Laura Hall Paxton is a native of Rome, Georgia, where she currently resides with her husband, John, who is a native of Scotland. She has a Master's degree in Psychology and a Specialist in Education degree in Guidance and Counseling from the State University of West Georgia. Mrs. Paxton's life is dedicated to researching best practices in order to improve the quality of life for the mentally ill. She enjoys presenting workshops based on her findings.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 150 pages
• Publisher: Laura Paxton (September 14, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 096756140X
• ISBN-13: 978-0967561400
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,652,939 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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75 of 76 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource for Clients and Therapists, July 1, 2000

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Linda Willits (Denver, CO, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook and Personal Journal (Spiral-bound)

Laura Paxton's book, Borderline and Beyond, is a welcome addition to the literature, for the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. Her view of people, who suffer with this disorder as being "courageous and full of creative potential," is refreshing and offers hope. Borderline and Beyond integrates symptom descriptions with related coping skills, worksheets, and goal directed journal pages. The book is well organized, clearly fitting symptoms to areas for healing such as self-nurturing and identity. Laura Paxton's approach is one of gentle encouragement; acknowledging the difficult journey, yet believing in the reader's ability to heal. As a therapist who leads Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills groups for clients with Borderline Personality Disorder, I have found integrating the arts into groups, along with skill demonstrations, to be enormously helpful. As Laura Paxton notes in her book, people learn best through practice and experience. Her blending of personal experience, poetry, and metaphor from movie and books, make this book particularly readable. The reader is provided the opportunity to grasp the lived experience of a person with Borderline Personality. I will be recommending this book, as well as Laura Paxton's web site, to colleagues and clients. The book will be expecially useful for people with Borderline Personality Disorder to feel understood, and for its provision of guideposts and concrete skills for healing. For therapists, the book can be helpful in guiding treatment and I believe would also augment other therapeutic modalities, including Linehan's Dialectical Behavior Therapy.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Borderline and Beyond - Somewhat Helpful, But..., September 19, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook and Personal Journal (Spiral-bound)

I ordered this workbook after having read the glowing reviews for it here at Amazon. If you've been looking for books on BPD, you realize how few there are, and even fewer that offer concrete suggestions and exercises. After reading through the workbook, however, I was very disappointed in the amount of actual information in it. Without counting the exact number of pages, I would estimate that a good 2/3 of the book is filled with copy after copy of worksheets to fill out. In my opinion this book would have been far more helpful if it had been filled with information and the reader was given the opportunity to make their own copies of worksheets. Also, it is not a "book" but rather a stack of paper copies bound with a plastic ring. While I believe that every piece of information available about BPD is useful, I was disappointed in the amount of information relative to the cost of this workbook.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brings grounding in an unstable life!, March 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Borderline and Beyond: A Program of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook and Personal Journal (Spiral-bound)

Having suffered with this disorder for so many years I am always on the look out for new information and ideas. Borderline and Beyond, is filled with refreshingly simple ideas to help the Borderline ground him/herself during episodes. The book is set up in a way that readers can implement the ideas both during a crisis as well as on an everyday basis in our journey to healing. Paxton has writen words that touch at the very core of our lives, but doesnt just leave the reader saying "yeah thats how I feel", she gives follow-up work so we can learn to cope with those feelings and move towards healing. Paxton is quick to point out that the book is not to stand on its own but rather goes hand in hand with psycotherapy, a reminder for both the borderline and the therapist. This is a wonderful book.