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Through the looking glass :

0813333105 (pbk. )

b415569

Through the looking glass :

[Book]

women and borderline personality disorder /

Dana Becker.

xxiv, 199 pages ;

24 cm.

New directions in theory and psychology

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-191) and index.

[1] 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. [2] 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. [3] The rise and fall of the borderline concept -- Object relations, developmental arrest, and the borderline syndrome -- Critiques of theoretical formulations. [4] 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. [5] 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. [6] 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. [7] "Borderline" self-destructiveness and therapeutic breakdown: Self-injury and BPD. Borderline women and the dialogue of suicide -- Treatment at the border.

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Borderline personality disorder.

Sex role-- Psychological aspects.

Women-- Mental health-- Sociological aspects.

Women-- Socialization.

Becker, Dana.

19990214203902.0

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