Summary
Mirjana Divac-Jovanović, Dragan Švrakić: Borderline personality and its different faces
What are personality disorders?
The phenomenon of "borderline personality" has long been a special challenge for psychotherapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. The phenomenon of "borderline" is even more interesting today when the boundaries of "normality" and "pathology" are blurred more than ever. The book Borderline personality and its different faces undoubtedly represents a big step forward in understanding this phenomenon. The author's team, which consists of a psychologist and a psychiatrist, uses different perspectives and builds a complementary and comprehensive picture of the borderline phenomenon, from the biological and psychological basis of its development, to the modern psychotherapeutic and pharmacotherapeutic approach to people with these difficulties.
The authors give their critical review and redefine the classic concept of personality disorder, functioning borderline as a dimension of personality observation. In addition to "everything you always wanted to know" about borderline personality, the authors make their original contributions to the understanding of borderline personality and the treatment of borderline disorder. Leading theoretical knowledge, key research results, psychodiagnostic parameters and therapeutic guidelines in working with borderline patients are critically covered. The book is organized in such a way that it can be a manual for experts in the field of mental health, as it answers specific dilemmas related to diagnosis, research and therapy of borderline conditions. At the same time, this book is accessible to any reader who is interested in personality problems, because it is written in a language that reflects the author's humanistic approach to a scientific topic.
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