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Through The Looking Glass: Women And Borderline Personality Disorder (New Directions in Theory and Psychology) (Paperback)

by Dana Becker (Author) "The complex story of borderline personality disorder cannot be told without reference to the historical association between women and madness..." (more)
Key Phrases: accusatory interpretations, borderline women, borderline symptoms, Snow White, Alice James, Anne Sexton (more...)

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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 the development of symptoms currently labeled borderline, and should appeal to psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and other mental health professionals as well as graduate students in these disciplines. The book will also be valuable to those involved in the fields of women's studies, psychology of women, sociology, and the history of medicine.

About the Author

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.

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; 1 edition (June 19, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813333105
ISBN-13: 978-0813333106
Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Amazon.com Sales Rank: #779,503 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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accusatory interpretations, borderline women, borderline symptoms, borderline diagnosis, borderline psychopathology, borderline clients, term borderline, borderline phenomena, borderline concept, borderline adolescents, borderline personality organization, borderline patients, psychological maltreatment, personality disorder diagnosis, histrionic personality disorder, borderline syndrome, epidemiologic catchment area study

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Snow White, Alice James, Anne Sexton, Silas Weir Mitchell, United States

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This book cites 46 books:

Clinical Psychology: Integrating Science and Practice by Arthur Freeman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Snow White by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm on page 88, and page 89
Clinical Psychology (with InfoTrac ) by Timothy J. Trull in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Social Psychology by Elliot Aronson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Child Development by Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)

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Women and Borderline Personality Disorder: Symptoms and Stories by Janet Wirth-Cauchon on page 212
The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt by Sharon Lamb in Back Matter
Perspectives on Social Problems, Volume 11 (Perspectives on Social Problems) by J.A. Holstein on page 166
Women, Madness and the Law: A Feminist Reader (Glasshouse) by Wendy Chan in Back Matter
Latina Realities: Essays on Healing, Migration, and Sexuality (New Directions in Theory and Psychology) by Oliva Espin in Front Matter

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