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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Becker, Dana. Through the looking glass. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997 (OCoLC)645858082 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dana Becker |
| ISBN: | 0813333091 9780813333090 0813333105 9780813333106 |
| OCLC Number: | 36548893 |
| Description: | xxiv, 199 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | New directions in theory and psychology. |
| Responsibility: | Dana Becker. |
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Abstract:
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.
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- Borderline personality disorder.
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- Mental Health.
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- Borderline persoonlijkheid.
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