In How to Talk to a Borderline, Joan Lachkar introduces Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and outlines the challenges and difficulties it presents to clinicians. She expands current understanding of BPD by outlining eight different kinds of borderline personality disorders and how each of these requires specific communication techniques and methods. Case examples are offered throughout the text and in some cases describe the kinds of partners borderlines attract. This book offers new approaches to communicating, working with, and treating borderline personality disorders while integrating more contemporary treatment methods.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Living in Borderland
Chapter 1 Overview of the Borderline Personality
What Others Have Written: From the Classic Contemporary. Freud, Klein, Masterson, (Kohut,, Kernberg, Grotstein); Newer Approaches (Marsha Linehan, A. J. Mahari (Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Walking on Eggshells, The Borderline Mother).
Chapter 2. The Pathological Borderline
Chapter 3. The Malignant Borderline (The Borderline the Terrorist)
Chapter 4. The Depressive Borderline
Chapter 5. The Obsessive-Compulsive Borderline (the Pack Rat/the Addict)
Chapter 6. The Antisocial Borderline
Chapter 7. The Passive-Aggressive Borderline
Chapter 8. The Histrionic Borderline
Chapter 9. The Cross-Cultural Borderline (Cross-Cultural Couples)
Chapter 10. Closing Thoughts
Glossary
Charts
Index
References
Biography
Joan Lachkar, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist and psychohistorian in private practice in Tarzana, California. She is the author of numerous publications on marital and political conflict, as well as the author of the successful book, How to Talk to a Narcissist. Joan Lachkar is an affiliate member and instructor at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and is a contributing writer for The Journal of Psychohistory, FrontPage Magazine, and Family Security Matters.