{"id":10,"date":"2010-04-11T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-04-11T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:43:00","slug":"understanding-the-borderline-mother-helping-her-children-transcend-the-intense-unpredictable-and-volatile-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2010\/04\/understanding-the-borderline-mother-helping-her-children-transcend-the-intense-unpredictable-and-volatile-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title is so long that the author didn’t fit: it’s Christine Ann Lawson, 2000.<\/p>\n

I read this book to better understand a situation in my own life, and although it was somewhat interesting, I didn’t find it particularly helpful. Perhaps the most useful bit was an explanation of why the women described can seem like normal parents to the vast majority of observers: <\/p>\n

Emotional intensity, impulsivity, unpredictability, and fear of abandonment are symptoms observable primarily by those who have an intimate relationship with the borderline. Casual acquaintances, co-workers, or neighbors are less likely to witness the borderline’s sudden shifts in mood, self-destructive behavior, paranoid distortions, and obsessive ruminations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Lawson categorizes women with borderline personality disorder into four categories: helpless waifs, frightened hermits, bossy queens, and vindictive witches. There’s a lot of
heavy-handed parallelism with Alice in Wonderland<\/i>, and a mix between case histories and biographies (Charlotte Du Pont, Sylvia Plath, Mary Todd Lincoln).<\/p>\n

That’s the extend of my notes (read in 2004, writing now in 2010)–but now there is a second situation where having more insight would be helpful, so I might try to borrow it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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