Book List | Personality Disorders |
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New Hope for People With BPD: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guided on Traditional and Complementary Solutions |
Fawcett, Jan & Golden, Bernard |
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Border Personality Disorder Demystified: An Essential Guide for Understanding and Living with BPD |
Friedel, Robert & Hoffman, Perry |
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I Hate You - Don't Leave Me |
Kreisman, Jerald & Straus, Hal |
Wonderful and easy to read |
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Why Is It Always About You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism |
Hotchkiss, Sandy & Masterson, James |
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Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation |
Shaw, Daniel |
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The Abandoned Child Within: On Losing and Regaining Self-Worth |
Asper, Kathrin & Rooks, Sharon |
Wonderful book |
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Children of the Self-Absorbed |
Brown, Nina |
Second edition is even better than the first |
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Kids are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline |
Coloroso, Barbara |
Reading books like this wonderful one parenting is another way for people to reference how childhood should have been; Author was a nun/teacher before getting married and having 4 teens. Focus on understating the values |
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Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and |
Forward, Susan |
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Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life |
Forward, Susan & Buck, Craig |
Uses real-life stories to provide framework to move past frustrating relationship patterns |
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Mothers Who Can't Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters |
Forward, Susan & Glynn, Donna Frazier |
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Too Close for Comfort?: Questioning the New Intimacy of Today's Mother Daughter Relationship |
Gordon, Linda Perlman & Shaffer, Susan |
Discusses healthy boundaries for both mother and daughter |
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Why Is It Always About You?: The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism |
Hotchkiss, Sandy & Masterson, James |
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Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents |
Isay, Jane |
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Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship |
Lawson, Christine Ann |
Excellent reviews, readable and relatable for clinician and client |
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Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers |
McBride, Karyl |
Focuses on mothers and daughters but addresses the impact of having a narcissistic parent |
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Mama Drama: Making Peace with the One Woman Who Can Push Your Buttons, Make |
McGregor, Denise |
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The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness |
Miller, Alice |
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Prisoners of Childhood: The Drama of the Gifted Child and the Search for the True Self |
Miller, Alice & Ward, Ruth |
“Gifted Child” refers to trauma survivor |
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If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your |
Neuharth, Dan |
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Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem |
Roth, Kimberlee & Friedman, Freda |
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When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends: Resolving the Most Complicated Relationship of Your Life |
Secunda, Victoria |
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Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation |
Shaw, Daniel |
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Anywhere but Here |
Simpson, Mona |
Fiction – also made into a movie |
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Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible |
Viorst, Judith |
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Out of the FOG: Information & Support for those with a Family Member or Loved One who Suffers From a Personality Disorder |
Walters, Gary |
Psychoeducational and supportive resource |
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Healing the Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families |
Whitfield, Charles |
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Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship |
Manning, Shari & Linehan, Marsha |
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Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder |
Mason, Paul & Kreger, Randi |
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Out of the FOG: Information & Support for those with a Family Member or Loved One who Suffers From a Personality Disorder |
Walters, Gary |
Psychoeducational and supportive resource |