Books/Movies of interest
Thornton, M.F. 1998. Eclipses: Behind the Borderline Personality Disorder. Madison, AL: Monte Santo.
Wanklin, J. 1997. Let Me Make it Good: A Chronicle of My Life with Borderline Personality Disorder. Buffalo, NY: Mosaic Press.
Girl, Interrupted (Columbia Pictures, 1999).
For Families of DBT Clients
Hoffman, P., Fruzetti, A., and Swenson, S. (1999). Dialectical Behavior Therapy - Family Skills Training. Family Process, 38(4), 399-414.
Rother, K., Friedman, F.B. (2003). Surviving a Borderline Parent. New Harbinger Publications.
Manning, S.Y., Linehan, M.M. (2011). Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder. Guilford Press.
Porr, V. ( 2010 ). Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder: A Family Guide for Healing and Change. Oxford University Press.
If Only I Had Known: A Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder (5 DVD Set). Dawkins Productions.
Gunderson, JG. & Hoffman, PD. (2005) Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide for Professionals and Families. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, Inc.
Hoffman, PD, and Steiner-Grossman, P. (2008) . Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment. Philadelphia, PA: Haworth Press.
For Couples
Fruzzetti, A.E., and Linehan, M.M. (2006). The High Conflict Couples: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy & Validation. New Harbinger Publications, Inc., Oakland, CA.
Websites to explore
BPD Central - www.bpdcentral.com
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEA-BPD) -Click here:
TARA (The Treatment and Research Advancements National Association for Personality Disorder) - www.tara4bpd.org.
