Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship
, by Manning, Shari Y.; Linehan, Marsha M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781609181956 | 1609181956
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 6/28/2011
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be compassionate, caring, smart, and funny, but they are also prone to explosive emotional outbursts and highly self-destructive acts. BPD expert Dr. Shari Manning helps overwhelmed loved ones understand whytheir spouse, adult child, or other family member acts so "impossible" -and learn to respond differently. She presents simple yet powerful strategies that can radically transform a troubled relationship. Loads of true stories demonstrate ways to defuse crises, set limits, and help the person with BPD build crucial problem-solving and emotion-management skills. Empathic, hopeful, and science based, this is the first book for significant others grounded in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT), the most effective treatment for BPD. Dr. Manning is a longtime associate of DBT originator Marsha M. Linehan.