This volume takes clinicians step-be-step through developing a dynamic case formulation and using this information to guide and inform treatment decisions.

In this work, Marsha M. Linehan not only provides specific guidelines that creatively combine the best elements of behavioral, personality, psychoanalytic, strategic and other commonly employed modalities, but helps the therapist survive the process.

People with Borderline Personality Disorder show symptoms such as: a shaky sense of identity; sudden violent outbursts; oversensitivity to real or imagined rejection; among others. This work offers professional advice, helping victims and their families to understand and cope with this troubling, shockingly widespread affliction.

Aims to provide the clinician with tools to diagnose and treat severe cases of personality disorder, including borderline and narcissistic structures. The book describes techniques used by the author in clinical practice and theories formulated in his previous work.