Understanding the borderline mother

helping her children transcend the intense, unpredictable, and volatile relationship

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Understanding the borderline mother

helping her children transcend the intense, unpredictable, and volatile relationship

  • 4.0 (1 rating) ·
  • 65 Want to read
  • 6 Currently reading
  • 2 Have read

"The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face, her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is crucial to survival. Dr. Christine Ann Lawson vividly describes how mothers who suffer from borderline personality disorder produce children who may flounder in life even as adults, futilely struggling to reach the safety of a parental harbor, unable to recognize that their borderline parent lacks a pier, or even a discernible shore.

Four character profiles describe different symptom clusters that include the waif mother, the hermit mother, the queen mother, and the witch." "Children of borderlines are at risk for developing this complex and devastating personality disorder themselves. Dr. Lawson's recommendations for prevention include empathic understanding of the borderline mother and early intervention with her children to ground them in reality and counteract the often dangerous effects of living with a "make-believe" mother.".

"Some readers may recognize their mothers as well as themselves in this book. They will also find specific suggestions for creating healthier relationships. Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
330

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Cover of: Borderline-Mütter und ihre Kinder
Borderline-Mütter und ihre Kinder: Wege zur Bewältigung einer schwierigen Beziehung
2006, Psychosozial-Verlag
Paperback in German
Cover of: Understanding the borderline mother
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Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship
2000, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
in English

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Edition Notes

A Jason Aronson book.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-316) and index.

Published in
Lanham, Md, Oxford

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
616.85/852/00852
Library of Congress
RC569.5.B67, RC569.5.B67L39 2000, RC569.5.B67 L39 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 330 p. ;
Number of pages
330

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22107903M
Internet Archive
understandingbor0000laws
ISBN 10
0765702886
LCCN
00038966
OCLC/WorldCat
55966154, 43913255
Library Thing
90634
Goodreads
2077583

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