Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice. Joel Paris

Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice



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"Paris has done a remarkable job of providing guidance for clinicians on how to understand and treat BPD. The book presents the latest scientific information in an engaging and readable manner, and offers research-based guidelines for assessment and clinical management. Professionals and students will appreciate the vivid case examples and straightforward tone of this book. Readers will come away with a clear and broad understanding of how to use science to guide the treatment of people who suffer from BPD."--Alexander L. Chapman, PhD, Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Canada

"Few people can claim the extraordinary level of experience in studying and treating borderline personality disorder that Paris brings to this book. Even fewer could write such a readable, clinically rich, and wise account of these patients, which seamlessly integrates exciting new empirically based findings. Anyone who has encountered a patient with BPD will covet this book, and, after having read it, will be far better prepared to manage future encounters."--John G. Gunderson, PhD, Director, Center for the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School

"An invaluable resource that is filled with authentic information from one of the world's experts on this widespread and disabling condition. Reviewing the origins of borderline personality disorder, Paris presents the latest research findings and provides practical guidance and advice to practitioners and trainees, derived from his many years of experience learning about and helping patients. This book is an essential addition to my 'borderline library'!"--John M. Oldham, MD, Senior Vice-President and Chief of Staff, Menninger Clinic

"Paris has concisely presented and reviewed an enormous amount of clinical research in borderline personality disorder (BPD). He addresses issues head on and clearly separates the wheat from the chaff. This book is an excellent clinical introduction for the beginning mental health practitioner and provides an up-to-date review for experienced clinicians. It covers the current state of clinical research and evidence-supported psychotherapeutic interventions in BPD comprehensively yet succinctly, and would be a valuable classroom text."--Kenneth R. Silk, MD, Professor and Director, Personality Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System

"A unique reference that comprehensively reviews a broad and complicated history of ideas and research in an easy-to-read format replete with a colorful back story and editorial commentary by a true clinical and scientific expert....Paris provides a complete overview of the history of research on BPD in a way that practically informs a coherent clinical approach to treating individuals with the diagnosis....Paris manages to lighten the reader''s load by dividing the literature into manageable chapters, which include case vignettes that deftly illustrate the clinical relevance of the scientific material that is presented. Another help to the reader is that Paris concludes each chapter with easy-to-remember pearls presented in a bulleted list entitled ''Clinical Implications''....This book serves as a much-needed reference for practicing clinicians during a time when psychiatry at large has solidly shifted to more evidence-based approaches and the empirical basis for treating BPD has been more firmly established....What Paris does most effectively and helpfully in this book is provide a means for the practicing clinician to gain expertise in a specialized, empirically informed approach to treating BPD, without the need for allegiance to a particular ''brand name'' validated approach....The style of the book is highly readable and surprisingly conversational....The book reads almost as if it were a direct supervision by Paris himself, a highly respected clinician-researcher who is a major figure in the development of our field''s understanding of BPD....Highly recommended to clinicians of all levels of experience looking to familiarize themselves with the evidence base for the treatment of BPD. It is ideal for trainees and teachers as well as academics and private practitioners. Even for researchers, it is a valuable orienting review text that does a good job of demonstrating the ties between scientific findings and treatment approaches for BPD."--Journal of Psychiatric Practice





(Journal of Psychiatric Practice )

About the Author

Joel Paris, MD, is a Research Associate at the Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. Since 1994, he has been a Full Professor at McGill University and served as Chair of its Department of Psychiatry from 1997 to 2007. He has supervised psychiatric evaluation with residents for over 30 years and has won many awards for his teaching. Dr. Paris is a past president of the Association for Research on Personality Disorders. Over the last 20 years, he has conducted research on the biological and psychosocial causes and the long-term outcome of borderline personality disorder. Dr. Paris is the author of 153 peer-reviewed articles, 11 books, and 36 book chapters. He is also Editor in Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.