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Through the looking glass : women and borderline personality disorder /

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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 s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Becker, Dana
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.
Series:New directions in theory and psychology.
Subjects:
Borderline personality disorder.
Women > Mental health > Sociological aspects.
Women > Socialization.
Sex role > Psychological aspects.
Women.
Mental health.
Gender identity.
Borderline Personality Disorder
Women
Mental Health
Gender Identity
État-limite (Psychiatrie)
Femmes > Santé mentale > Aspect sociologique.
Femmes > Socialisation.
Rôle selon le sexe > Aspect psychologique.
Femmes.
Santé mentale.
Identité de genre.
mental health.
sex role.
women (female humans)
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
Mental health
Gender identity
Borderline personality disorder
Sex role > Psychological aspects
Women > Mental health > Sociological aspects
Women > Socialization
Frau
Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung
Borderline persoonlijkheid.
Vrouwen.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • From witchcraft to hysteria to BPD : a brief history of female insanity. Women and madness : a historical view. A "chattering, canting age." Two women's histories : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Alice James
  • Taxonomy as destiny? The birth of labels. "Mad" women and "Bad" men. Mental illness and labeling theory : are we blaming the victim? Gender roles, mental illness, and the price of deviance. Psychiatry's family Bible : DSM. The clinical realities of naming and diagnosis. The personality disorders : prevalence and politics. Gender bias in diagnosis
  • The rise and fall of the borderline concept. Object relations, developmental arrest, and the borderline syndrome. Critiques of theoretical formulations
  • Toward an etiology of borderline symptomatology. Biology as destiny? Abuse traumata and psychological distress. The BPD/PTSD controversy : who's on first? Development of the self, developmental psychopathology and the borderline disorder
  • Through the looking glass : female socialization and personality disorder. In the looking glass. A case of privileged meaning : the reification of autonomy. Continuities and discontinuities in women's coming of age
  • Anger, dependency, and fear : women at the border. Member of the wedding. Autonomy revisited : personality disorder and ideas about autonomy. Anger, dependency, and personality disorder
  • "Borderline" self-destructiveness and therapeutic breakdown. Self-injury and BPD. Borderline women and the dialogue of suicide. Treatment at the border.