A Dissociation Model of Borderline Personality Disorder (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

by Russell Meares

Overview

A neurobiologically informed approach to a very difficult-to-treat disorder.

This book addresses one of the fundamental, understudied issues of borderline personality disorder (BPD): dissociation and a lack of sense of self. Exploring dissociation from developmental, neurobiological, and behavioral perspectives, Russell Meares presents an original theory of BPD, offering new insights into this debilitating disorder and hope for recovery.

BPD is not a new phenomenon, but much about it remains unclear and controversial. Meares’s three-stage treatment emphasizes the failure of synthesis among the elements of psychic life, the need for both personal and social development, integration of unconscious traumatic memory, affect regulation, hallucinosis, stimulus entrapment, paranoid states, and ultimately, restoration of the self. Mental health professionals working with patients suffering from symptoms of BPD will find an invaluable theoretical grounding for treating the difficult—and varied—symptoms of BPD.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393708615
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	10/22/2012
Series:	Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Russell Meares is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Sydney University. He lives in Australia.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction: The Borderline Experience 1

2 From Hysteria to Borderline: A Brief History 14

3 Self Disturbance as the Core of Borderline Personality Disorder 34

4 "Le Moi est une co-ordination" 48

5 A Failure of Neural Co-ordination in BPD: A Study of P3a and P3b 63

6 A Neural Network for the Matrix of Self 85

7 Dissociation in Borderline Personality 112

8 Fusion and Disconnection: The Paradoxical Structure of Dissociative Experience 157

9 The Expectational Field, Reversals, and Other Aspects of Disintegrated Relatedness 179

10 The Polysymptomatic Nature of Borderline Personality 200

11 Emotional Dysregulation 212

12 Somatization and Stimulus Entrapment 236

13 A Malady of Representations: Dysautonomic Aspects of BPD 248

14 Paranoid Ideas and Delusion Formation 268

15 Is BPD a Particularly Right Hemispheric Disorder? 287

16 Toward Cohesion: Analogical Relatedness 301

Credits 319

References 321

Index 381