Resources
Books
The Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder
By Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD
Finding Peace in Your Family Using Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder
By Blaise Aguirre, MD
& Gillian Galen, PsyD
Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
A BPD Brief
By John Gunderson
An Introduction to Borderline Personality Disorder – Diagnosis, Origins, Course and Treatment
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
By John G. Gunderson, MD &
and Perry D Hoffman, PhD
A Guide For Professionals And Families
The High Conflict Couple
By Alan E. Fruzzetti, PhD
A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide To Finding Peace, Intimacy and Validation.
Radical Acceptance
By Tara Brach
Embracing Your Life With The Heart Of A Buddha
The Buddha & The Borderline
By Kiera Van Gelder
My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder Through Dialectical Behavior Therapy
How to Sit
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Author of Living Buddha, Living Christ
Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames
By Thich Nhat Hanh
Author of Living Buddha, Living Christ
Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
By Shari Y. Manning, PhD
How To Keep Out Of Control Emotions From Destroying Your Relationship
The Mindfulness Solutions For Intense Emotions:Take Control of Borderline Personality Disorder with DBT
by Cedar Koons
The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions offers breakthrough, new mindfulness skills and exercises drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you move past harmful emotions.
Links
DBT Self Help
DBT Self help; written primarily by PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH DBT, this website is a service for people who are seeking information about DBT (Dialectal Behavior Therapy). A solid resource for many of the skills, lessons, mindfulness practice, etc. and more resources.
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder
National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder; NEA.BPD is a nationally recognized organization dedicated to building better lives for millions of Americans affected by Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). NEA.BPD works with families and persons in recovery, raises public awareness, provides education to professionals, promotes research, and works with Congress to enhance the quality of life for those affected by this serious but treatable mental illness. This website has the largest collection of resources, recordings and videos about this illness.
Emotions Matter
Emotions Matters, Inc. is a non-profit organization created by a network of families and individuals affected by borderline personality disorder (BPD) who have united around our mission to improve social connection, awareness and health care systems for those with BPD.
May – BPD Awareness Video
A series of videos explaining Family skills: This video series, developed jointly by NEA.BPD (Dr. Alan Fruzzetti) and the National Office for Suicide Prevention in Ireland (HSE), demonstrate how Dialectical Behavioral Therapy helps patients and their families and support Family Connections participants in honing their skills.
Videos
How severe chronic emotional dysregulation affects families, and what family members can do about it.
This video clarifies the exhausting repetitive emotional upset that affects families of individuals affected by BPD traits. It explains the transactional model of BPD conceptualized by Alan Fruzzetti, Ph.D as I teach it in Family Connections (TM) classes. The slide content was developed by Dr. Fruzzetti.
Involving Families: A Key Ingredient
of Treatment Effectiveness
North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (NASSPD):
Marie-Paule de Valdivia – LCSW.
March 2015
NEABPD Webinar
Validation
Summer 2020