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Author Van Gelder, Kiera.

Title The Buddha & the borderline : my recovery from borderline personality disorder through dialectical behavior therapy, Buddhism, & online dating / Kiera Van Gelder.

Publication Info. Oakland, CA. : New Harbinger Publications, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 246 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-246).
Contents Love bird. Mentally ill, suicidal drug addict ; Girl, recycled ; The diagnosis that dares not speak its name ; Mindfulness and the Big Mac ; Saviors ; Full circle -- Last resort. Short-term solutions ; Dancing with demons ; Flying the coop ; Chalice of the hopeless ; Safety -- Shifts in light. Keys ; Leaving the dysregulation zone ; No blow jobs on the first date ; Empty room ; Learning to ride -- Emergence. First touch ; Exposure ; Being more than one thing ; Control and blame ; Crossing the mom divide ; The tipping point -- Transformation of suffering. Taking refuge ; Reversals ; Bad Buddhist ; Vajrayana ; The meat man ; Mirror of true nature.
Summary The Buddha and the Borderline is a riveting, first-person account of one woman's struggle with borderline personality disorder (BPD)-a diagnosis some have called a psychiatric death sentence-and her eventual triumph over her symptoms through dialectical behavior therapy and Buddhist spirituality.
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Subject Van Gelder, Kiera -- Mental health.
Van Gelder, Kiera.
Mental health.
Van Gelder, Kiera.
Borderline personality disorder -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
Borderline personality disorder.
Patients.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Dialectical behavior therapy.
Dialectical behavior therapy.
Meditation -- Therapeutic use.
Meditation -- Therapeutic use.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Added Title Buddha and the borderline
Other Form: Print version: Van Gelder, Kiera. Buddha & the borderline. Oakland, Calif. : New Harbinger Publications, ©2010 (DLC) 2010011984
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