Text for psychotherapists examining the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult borderline personality disorder, with emphasis on symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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Critically examines the relationship between childhood sexual abuse and adult borderline personality disorder, with a particular focus on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Taking into account the many ambiguities in the current understanding of the complex relationship between childhood abuse experiences, formation of self-destructive personality styles, and subsequent psychotherapy for these problems, Kroll (psychiatry, U. of Minnesota Medical School) presents a working model that is useful without straitjacketing the practitioner or foreclosing the opportunities for new perspectives. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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