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John Gartner, Ph.D.
is a psychologist and author living in Baltimore. He can be contacted at: jg@johngartner.com

 

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John Gartner now writes a regular blog at Psychology Today. To visit the blog click here. You may also visit his other blog at The Hypomanic Edge.

 

Borderline Personality Disorder Books for Professionals

Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Of Borderline Patients
Otto F. Kernberg, Michael A. Selzer, Harold W. Koenigsberg, and Arthur C. Carr
http://www.amazon.com/Psychodynamic-Psychotherapy-Borderline-Patients-Kernberg/dp/0465066437/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271194596&sr=1-4

Borderline Conditions and Pathological Narcissism
Otto F. Kernberg
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Conditions-Pathological-Narcissism-Master/dp/0876687621/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273583382&sr=1-1

Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
John G. Gunderson and Perry D. Hoffman
http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Treating-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/1585621358

Borderline Personality Disorder
John G. Gunderson
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-John-Gunderson/dp/0880480203/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270913378&sr=1-21

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Clinical Guide
John G. Gunderson and Paul S. Links
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Clinical-Guide/dp/1585623350/ref=sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270917005&sr=1-34

The Narcissistic and Borderline Disorders: An Integrated Developmental Approach
James F. Masterson
http://www.amazon.com/Narcissistic-Borderline-Disorders-Integrated-Developmental/dp/0876302924/ref=sr_1_48?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189041&sr=1-48

The Fate of Borderline Patients: Successful Outcome and Psychiatric Practice
Michael H. Stone
http://www.amazon.com/Fate-Borderline-Patients-Successful-Psychiatric/dp/0898623995/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271194864&sr=1-4

Essential Papers on Borderline Disorders
Michael H. Stone
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Papers-Borderline-Disorders-Psychoanalysis/dp/081477850X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271194864&sr=1-1

Integrative Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder: Effective, Symptom-Focused Techniques, Simplified For Private Practice
John Preston
http://www.amazon.com/Integrative-Treatment-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/1572244461/ref=sr_1_26?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270917005&sr=1-26

Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Guide to Evidence-Based Practice
Joel Paris
http://www.amazon.com/Treatment-Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Evidence-Based/dp/1606238647/ref=sr_1_32?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270917005&sr=1-32

Biological and Neurobehavioral Studies of Borderline Personality Disorder
Kenneth R. Silk
http://www.amazon.com/Biological-Neurobehavioral-Borderline-Personality-Psychiatry/dp/0880484802/ref=sr_1_46?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189041&sr=1-46

Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Treatment
Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy
http://www.amazon.com/Psychotherapy-Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Mentalization/dp/0198527667/ref=sr_1_45?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189041&sr=1-45


Borderline Personality Disorder: The Latest Assessment and Treatment Strategies
Melanie A. Dean
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Assessment-Strategies/dp/1887537201/ref=sr_1_49?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189720&sr=1-49

Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Arnoud Arntz, Hannie van Genderen, and Jolijn Drost
http://www.amazon.com/Schema-Therapy-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/0470510811/ref=sr_1_50?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189720&sr=1-50

Role of Sexual Abuse in Etiology of Borderline Personality Disorder
Mary C. Zanarini
http://www.amazon.com/Sexual-Etiology-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/0880484969/ref=sr_1_51?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189720&sr=1-51

Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder: The Model and the Method
Anthony Ryle
http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Analytic-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/0471976180/ref=sr_1_52?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271189720&sr=1-52

Borderline Personality Disorder: Tailoring the Psychotherapy to the Patient
Glen O. Gabbard, Jon G. Allen, Siebolt H. Frieswyk, and Donald B. Colson
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Tailoring-Psychotherapy/dp/0880486899/ref=sr_1_62?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271190749&sr=1-62

Borderline Personality Disorder: Meeting the Challenges to Successful Treatment
Perry D Hoffman and Penny Steiner-Grossman
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Challenges-Successful/dp/0789032341/ref=sr_1_63?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-63

Borderline Personality Disorder
Mary C. Zanarini
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Medical-Psychiatry/dp/0824729285/ref=sr_1_65?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-65

Another Chance to be Real: Attachment and Object Relations Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Roberts Donald and Roberts Deanda
http://www.amazon.com/Another-Chance-Real-Attachment-Personality/dp/0765705540/ref=sr_1_67?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-67

Self-Management Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist-Guided Approach
Michael H. Langley
http://www.amazon.com/Self-Management-Therapy-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/082618300X/ref=sr_1_68?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-68

Borderline Personality Disorder: The NICE Guideline on Treatment and Management
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Guideline-Management/dp/1854334778/ref=sr_1_70?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-70

Diagnosis - Borderline Personality Disorder: Visions for Tomorrow
Nami Texas and Deborah Colleen Rose
http://www.amazon.com/Diagnosis-Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Tomorrow/dp/1448635284/ref=sr_1_71?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-71

Borderline Personality Disorder and Childhood Environment: A Cognitive-Behavioural Perspective
Steven Carr
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Childhood-Environment/dp/3639102827/ref=sr_1_72?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271191080&sr=1-72

Subgroups of Borderline Personality Disorder: Identification and clinical utility
by Julian Nesci, David Smith, and Trish Altieri
http://www.amazon.com/Subgroups-Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Identification/dp/3639220277/ref=sr_1_73?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-73

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Multidimensional Approach
Joel Paris
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Multidimensional-Approach/dp/0880486554/ref=sr_1_74?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-74

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practitioner's Guide to Comparative Treatments
Arthur Freeman, Mark H. Stone, and Donna Martin
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Practitioners-Psychological/dp/0826120946/ref=sr_1_75?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-75

Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder
American Psychiatric Association
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Psychiatric-Association-Guidelines/dp/0890423199/ref=sr_1_76?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-76

A Developmental Model of Borderline Personality Disorder: Understanding Variations in Course and Outcome
Patricia Hoffman Judd and Thomas H. McGlashan
http://www.amazon.com/Developmental-Model-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/0880485159/ref=sr_1_77?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-77

Interpersonal Group Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
Elsa Marziali and Heather Munroe-Blum
http://www.amazon.com/Interpersonal-Psychotherapy-Borderline-Personality-Disorder/dp/0465088937/ref=sr_1_78?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-78

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Practical Guide to Treatment
Roy Krawitz and Christine Watson
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Practical-Treatment/dp/0198520670/ref=sr_1_79?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-79

Borderline Personality Disorder: A Therapist's Guide to Taking Control
Arthur Freeman and Gina M. Fusco
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Therapists-Control/dp/0393703525/ref=sr_1_81?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-81

Personalities: Master Clinicians Confront the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorders
Henk-Jan Dalewijk
http://www.amazon.com/Personalities-Clinicians-Treatment-Borderline-Personality/dp/0765702940/ref=sr_1_82?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-82

Borderline Personality Disorder: Clinical and Empirical Perspectives
John F. Clarkin, Elsa Marziali, and Heather Munroe-Blum
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-Empirical-Perspectives/dp/089862262X/ref=sr_1_84?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271192140&sr=1-84

Cognitive Therapy of Borderline Personality Disorder
Mary Anne Layden, Cory F., Newman, Arthur Freeman, and Susan Byers Morse
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Psychology-Practitioner-Guidebooks/dp/0205148077/ref=sr_1_87?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271193207&sr=1-87

Borderline Personality Disorders: The Concept the Syndrome the Patient
Peter Hartocollis
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorders-Concept-Syndrome/dp/0823605752/ref=sr_1_96?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271193207&sr=1-96

Borderline Personality Disorder: New Research
Marian H. Jackson
http://www.amazon.com/Borderline-Personality-Disorder-New-Research/dp/1606924605/ref=sr_1_99?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271194251&sr=1-99