Reddit reviews Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book)

When ever this comes up, I recommend Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope, published by Johns Hopkins Medical School, as being more scientific.

There's been a lot of research on BPD in the last 10 years, and a much more nuanced understanding emerges from that than from self-help books.

The internet is a morass and there indeed are many clinicians who don't want to treat us. HOWEVER there are many who have a particular interest in and compassion for borderline, and we are really lucky because they are the good ones. You can look on Psychology Today and they list what their interests are. Its nice to work with someone who's EXCITED to treat you.

As for up to date and rational information about the condition, its causes, how it works, and treatment/prognosis -- i wish i had found this book when I was first diagnosed:

http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Reasons-Hopkins/dp/1421403145

PsychologyToday isn't that great as well, on an in depth level. For me, I've found myself aimlessly surfing through the oversimplified/summaried articles, that only veers on the surface level of things.

• "Emotionally instability" -- but what does that explain?
  
  Honestly, the pathology spreads across so many different disciplines/schools of thought, that I had to go through many different academic literature to grasp a conceptual understanding; attachment psychology, complex traumatic stress, neuroscience, developmental psychology, developmental trauma, object-relations, intrapsychic ego (impulsiveness/ego management/emotional-pull-push with people), dissociation, as well as marital therapy and sociological Asian American (to understand the cultural barriers/friction with mental health, then I'm looking towards understanding MBT and DBT, as a way to empathize.
  
  I've pretty much have most of the "mainstream" BPD books out there, and I think the Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified does a fairly good job providing a detailed overview of the prognosis of those with BPD. However, I've come across Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope again, and I think it may be more promising after skimming through it. I passed on it when I first forayed into BPD literature, instead opting for simpler books; however, I've come to realize that has only lead to the surface level of things as well.
  
  
  As for Randi, her book does more oversimplification which is consequently harmful, than the righteousness of doing good it wistfully intends. It also seems that she is using/projecting the book and her participation in the BPD community as a collective coping mechanism for her past. IDK
  
  Your website is great. I feel research/literature wise, we're reaching a point where we have a good amount research/literature on BPD that provides contemporary answers, but it's still fragmented across cross-topics/disciplines. We have top-experts in their own specialization like Otto Von in PTSD that usually have a chapter on BPD in their textbooks, and I reckon there should be more work from everyone into encompassing a collaborative comprehensive text for this highly niche subject of BPD, that entails not just one sole disciplinary focus.

"Borderline Personality Disorder: New Reasons for Hope" from Johns Hopkins press is more up to date and evidence based. (Sauce: am person with BPD)