Below I’ll give you my selections for the best Borderline Personality books by a few categories. I will cover these and other great books more in depth later.
1. I Hate You–Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality (2010)
After more than two decades as the essential guide to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), this new edition now reflects the most up- to-date research that has opened doors to the neurobiological, genetic, and developmental roots of the disorder as well as connections between BPD and substance abuse, sexual abuse, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, ADHD, and eating disorders. Both pharmacological and psychotherapeutic advancements point to real hope for success in the treatment and understanding of BPD. This expanded and revised edition remains as accessible and useful as its predecessor and will…
2. The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) (2019)
If you’ve been diagnosed with BPD you may feel a number of emotions—including shock, shame, sadness, abandonment, emptiness, or even anger. Even worse, you may be tempted to research your diagnosis online, only to find doomsday scenarios and terrible prognoses everywhere you click. Take a deep breath. You can get through this—and this workbook will help guide you.Despite what you may have read or been told, BPD is not the worst thing that can happen to you. Like many mental health issues, it manifests on a spectrum, and while some people may encounter extreme symptoms and…
3. Borderline Personality Disorder Toolbox: A Practical Evidence-Based Guide to Regulating Intense Emotions (2016)
-Do you feel misunderstood? -Do mood swings hit you quickly and intensely? -Are you susceptible to getting your “buttons pushed” more often than others? -Can you love your partner with all your heart and passionate intensity one moment, and hate them just as much only an hour later? -Do you constantly have a nagging voice in the back of your mind telling you someone you care about is going to leave you, and that you will never be able to make it in life without them? If the answer to the majority of these questions is “yes,” it is likely that you have borderline personality…
4. Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder (2010)
Do you feel manipulated, controlled, or lied to? Are you the focus of intense, violent, and irrational rages? Do you feel you are ‘walking on eggshells’ to avoid the next confrontation? If the answer is ‘yes,’ someone you care about may have borderline personality disorder (BPD). Stop Walking on Eggshells has already helped nearly half a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this destructive disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors. This fully revised edition has been updated…
5. Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (2013)
If you are like many others living with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you know what it’s like to be overwhelmed by intense and fluctuating emotions; to have difficulty with relationships; and to constantly struggle with troubling thoughts and behaviors. BPD can be especially difficult to treat, though there are ways to gain control over your symptoms and live a happier, healthier life. Expanding on the core skill of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder will help you target and successfully manage many of the familiar symptoms of BPD. Inside, you…
6. Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder: How to Keep Out-of-Control Emotions from Destroying Your Relationship (2011)
People with borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be intensely caring, warm, smart, and funny―but their behavior often drives away those closest to them. If you’re struggling in a tumultuous relationship with someone with BPD, this is the book for you. Dr. Shari Manning helps you understand why your spouse, family member, or friend has such out-of-control emotions―and how to change the way you can respond. Learn to use simple yet powerful strategies that can defuse crises, establish better boundaries, and radically transform your relationship. Empathic,…
7. The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know About Living with BPD (2007)
If you or someone you love is struggling with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you need up-to-date, accurate, and accessible information on the problems you’re facing and where you can turn for help. But where do you look? Much of the professional literature on BPD is too technical and confusing to be of much help. And searching the Internet for accurate information can be treacherous, with some sites providing useful information and others giving dangerous advice and misinformation. If you’re living with BPD, this compassionate book offers what…
8. The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder (Bpd Wellness) (2019)
If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you already know how painful it can be. But take heart – recovery is possible! The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder offers advice from someone who’s been there and speaks from inside BPD, with empathy, care and insight. Author Shehrina Rooney shrugs off the stigma, busts myths, and translates the diagnostic criteria into everyday language. She explains the brain science of emotion dysregulation and shares her favorite strategies and skills for weathering the storm. The Big Book on Borderline Personality…
9. The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating (2010)
Kiera Van Gelder’s first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles with drug addiction, depression, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, and chaotic romantic relationships-all of which eventually led to doctors’ belated diagnosis of borderline personality disorder twenty years later. The Buddha and the Borderline is a window into this mysterious and debilitating condition, an unblinking portrayal of one woman’s fight against the emotional devastation of borderline personality disorder. This haunting, intimate memoir chronicles both the devastating…
10. Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change (2010)
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by unstable moods, negative self-image, dangerous impulsivity, and tumultuous relationships. Many people with BPD excel in academics and careers while revealing erratic, self-destructive, and sometimes violent behavior only to those with whom they are intimate. Others have trouble simply holding down a job or staying in school.Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder is a compassionate and informative guide to understanding this profoundly unsettling–and widely misunderstood–mental illness, believed to affect approximately 6% of the general population. Rather than…
11. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder (2004)
With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones.With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. A mother, wife, and working professional, Reiland was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 29–a diagnosis that…
Best Borderline Personality Books Worth Your Attention
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The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder: New Tools and Techniques to Stop Walking on Eggshells
Author(s): Randi Kreger
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing, Year: 3 June 2009, Size: 487 Kb, Download: epub
ID: 2327232
The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook: An Integrative Program to Understand and Manage Your BPD
Author(s): Daniel J. Fox
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, Year: 2019, Size: 2 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2381789
Borderline Personality Disorder: A Case-Based Approach
Author(s): Brian Palmer, Brandon Unruh
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Year: 2018, Size: 2 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 2310737
Integrated Modular Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide to Combining Effective Treatment Methods
Author(s): W. John Livesley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Year: 2017, Size: 4 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 1635652
When Your Daughter Has BPD: Essential Skills to Help Families Manage Borderline Personality Disorder
Author(s): Daniel S. Lobel
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, Year: 2017, Size: 1 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2342129
The mindfulness solution for intense emotions : take control of borderline personality disorder with DBT
Author(s): Cedar R Koons & Marsha M Linehan
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, Year: 2016, Size: 1017 Kb, Download: azw3
ID: 2071360
Beyond Borderline: True Stories of Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder
Author(s): John G. Gunderson; Perry D Hoffman
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications, Year: 2016, Size: 1 Mb, Download: epub
ID: 2259627
Borderline Personality and Mood Disorders: Comorbidity and Controversy
Author(s): Lois W. Choi-Kain, John G. Gunderson (eds.)
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, Year: 2015, Size: 3 Mb, Download: pdf
ID: 1291157
Please note that this booklist is not absolute. Some books are truly chart-busters according to Los Angeles Times, others are drafted by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.