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Pathfinder: Borderline Personality Disorder

Scope|Subject Headings|Overview Sources|Circulating Books|Periodicals, Journals& Trade Publications

SCOPE: Borderline personality disorder refers to those individuals who are uncertain about their goals, values, careers, and personal identities. There is a pattern of instability in relationships, self-image and mood as well as a lack of control over impulses. (Nevid, Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World)  Destructive and unpredictable behaviors are characteristic of borderline personality disorder.

SUBJECT HEADINGS

Books dealing with borderline personality disorder are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under the following subject headings:

Borderline personality disorder
Personality disorders

There are sources located in the Reference Section of the Baddour Library that give a general overview or summary of the topic you are researching. The following is a list of some of the sources available in the library.

OVERVIEW SOURCES

REF RC 455.2.C4 D536 2000 DSM-IV-TR

REF BF 31.E52 2000 Encyclopedia of Psychology

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

CIRCULATING BOOKS

Cauwels, Janice M. Imbroglio: Rising to the Challenges of Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: Norton, 1992.

Kernberg, Otto F. Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism. New York: J. 
Aronson, 1985.

Kernberg, Otto F. Severe Personality Disorders: Psychotherapeutic Strategies
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Linehan, Marsha. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder. New York: Guilford Press, 1993.

Moskovitz, Richard A. Lost in the Mirror: An Inside Look at Borderline Personality Disorder. Dallas,Tex: Taylor Pub. Co; 1996.

Paris, Joel. Borderline Personality Disorder. Philadelphia,PA: W.B. Saunders, 2000 (Psychiatric Clinics of North America).

Share, Isaiah A. Borderline Personality Disorder: A 25- Year Retrospective and Prospective. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co; 1994 (Psychiatric Clinics of North America).

Some of the specific periodicals that the library subscribes to that focuses on the topic of borderline personality disorder are:

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the links for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

 

Updated 02/08/2007