In the Fullness of Time

It is simply not possible to overstate the importance of In the Fullness of Time: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder. That's right "recovery." Zanarini outlines research over decades that not only challenges but also debunks this view. Is treatment for BPD difficult? Yes. Will therapists still find such cases to be some of the most difficult and challenging they might experience? Yes. With carefully crafted case histories, however, Zanarini reveals how effective treatment and engagement with BPD patients can most effectively occur and how recovery is possible. She defines recovery as "concurrent symptomatic remission and good social and good full-time vocational functioning". A highly recommended work for practitioners, researchers, and anyone dealing with a family member who has borderline personality disorder.

Auteur
Mary C. Zanarini, EdD, is Professor of Psychology at Harvard Medical School and Director of McLean Hospital's Laboratory for the Study of Adult Development. She has spent her career studying the phenomenology and long-term course of borderline personality disorder (BPD), childhood experiences of adversity, and co-occurring disorders. She has also conducted a series of medication trials and trials of psychosocial treatments for BPD, and she developed the most widely used diagnostic and severity measures for BPD. Dr. Zanarini is the founding President of the North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and a past Vice President of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders.

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In the Fullness of Time debunks the common myth that BPD is incurable, drawing on the findings of the NIMH-funded study, the McLean Study of Adult Development, which has found that BPD has the best symptomatic outcome of all major mental illnesses.

Contenu

• Chapter 1: History of the Borderline Diagnosis

• Chapter 2: Models of the Core Features of Borderline Personality Disorder

• Chapter 3: Earlier Studies of the Longitudinal Course of BPD

• Chapter 4: The McLean Study of Adult Development (MSAD)

• Chapter 5: The Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder Assessed in MSAD

• Chapter 6: The Long-term Course of the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder

• Chapter 7: Symptomatic Remissions and Recurrences of the Borderline Diagnosis

• Chapter 8: Prevalence and Predictors of Physically Self-destructive Acts over Time

• Chapter 9: Additional Symptom Areas over Time

• Chapter 10: Psychosocial Functioning over Time

• Chapter 11: Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

• Chapter 12: Predictors of Time-to-Remission and Recovery

• Chapter 13: Co-occurring Disorders over Time

• Chapter 14: Mental Health Treatment over Time

• Chapter 15: Physical Health and Medical Treatment

• Chapter 16: Adult Victimization over Time

• Chapter 17: Sexual Issues over Time

• Chapter 18: Defense Mechanisms over Time

• Chapter 19: Going Forward