Understanding your Borderline Personality Disorder A Workbook

Understanding Your Borderline Personality Disorder: A Workbook offers basic information about borderline personality disorder. The book is interactive so that clients can explore their own attitudes and concerns about their diagnosis and tackles some of the common misperceptions about borderline personality disorder. The book is organized into sessions that cover definitions of borderline personality disorder, causes of the disorder, symptoms and symptom management, how medication can help and its side-effects, psychotherapeutic interventions, and suggestions on how to manage borderline personality disorder in day-to-day life.

Chris Healy is a mental health staff nurse with more than a decade’s experience of working with mentally ill offenders. She is the author of Understanding Your Schizophrenia Illness: A Workbook (Wiley, 2007).