Through the Looking Glass: Women and Borderline Personality Disorder

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Prologue - Borderline Women Among the Mentally Ill xi
• Conclusion xxiii
• 1 - From Witchcraft to Hysteria to BPD: A Brief History of Female Insanity 1
• 2 - Taxonomy as Destiny? The Birth of Labels 27
• 3 - The Rise and Fall of the Borderline Concept 49
• 4 - Toward an Etiology of Borderline Symptomatology 60
• 5 - Through the Looking Glass: Female Socialization and Personality Disorder 87
• 6 - Anger, Dependency, and Fear: Women at the Border 110
• 7 - Borderline Self-Destructiveness and Therapeutic Breakdown 132
• Epilogue 158
• Notes 161
• References 168
• About the Book and Author 192

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Prologue - Borderline Women Among the Mentally Ill xi
• Conclusion xxiii
• 1 - From Witchcraft to Hysteria to BPD: A Brief History of Female Insanity 1
• 2 - Taxonomy as Destiny? The Birth of Labels 27
• 3 - The Rise and Fall of the Borderline Concept 49
• 4 - Toward an Etiology of Borderline Symptomatology 60
• 5 - Through the Looking Glass: Female Socialization and Personality Disorder 87
• 6 - Anger, Dependency, and Fear: Women at the Border 110
• 7 - Borderline Self-Destructiveness and Therapeutic Breakdown 132
• Epilogue 158
• Notes 161
• References 168
• About the Book and Author 192
• Index 193