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In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. THE PSYCHOPATH TEST is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the... (learn more about this book)
Phineas Gage was truly a man with a hole in his head. A railroad construction foreman, Phineas was blasting rock near Cavendish, Vermont, in 1848 when a thirteen-pound iron rod was shot through his brain. Miraculously, he survived another eleven years and became a textbook case in brain... (learn more about this book)
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorderexperience such violent and frightening mood swingsthat they often fear for their sanity. They can beeuphoric one moment, despairing and depressed thenext. There are an estimated 10 million sufferersof BPD living in America... (learn more about this book)
Dr. Robert Hare has devoted more than three decades of his professional career to the investigation of the psychopath and how psychopathic behavior influences and corrupts society. Hare is the creator of the Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R), a twenty item personality checklist. There is no doubt... (learn more about this book)
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder is a self-help guide that helps the family members and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this self-destructive disorder and learn what they can do to... (learn more about this book)
Borderline Personality Disorder. "What the hell was that?" raged Rachel Reiland when she read the diagnosis written in her medical chart. As the 29-year old accountant, wife, and mother of young children would soon discover, it was the diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger,... (learn more about this book)
"This is the first coherent autobiographical study of its kind, and it is absolutely mesmerizing....Simply not be be missed." THE DETROIT NEWS When Joan Frances Casey "awoke" on the ledge of a building ready to jump, she did not know how she had gotten there. And it wasn't the first time she... (learn more about this book)
University of Washington, Seattle. Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Disorders Series. Manual for psychotherapists on skill-building techniques in treating borderline personality disorder. Includes client handouts that may be photocopied.
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A huge bestseller in the late 1950s chronicling the phenomenon of "Eve" a woman who allegedly was possessed with three radically different personalities.
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"Some readers may recognize their mothers as well as themselves in this book. They will also find specific suggestions for creating healthier relationships. Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without... (learn more about this book)