Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder

The Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder is based on the author's conviction that with adequate training most psychiatrists and other mental health professionals can become "good enough" to treat most borderline patients competently without having to refer them to more specialized care. Gunderson, considered the premier authority on the treatment of borderline personality disorder, recognizes that many clinicians remain hesitant to engage patients with BPD. However, because those with the disorder represent about 20% of inpatient and outpatient clinic patients, they require and deserve quality care. This book is a complete guide to using the evidence-based Good Psychiatric Management (GPM) approach for the treatment of BPD. The book demystifies the disorder, supplying the background, treatment guidelines, illustrative case studies, and online video demonstrations of core techniques needed by clinical psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, psychiatric nurses, and others who encounter borderline patients in clinical settings to deliver effective, pragmatic and non-intensive therapeutic care. Common-sensical and evidence-based, the Handbook of Good Psychiatric Management for Borderline Personality Disorder prepares clinicians to help these patients understand their inner experience, reshape their behavior, and establish constructive lives. This success in turn instills confidence in treatment providers and eliminates the barriers that have heretofore hampered effective treatment.