Understanding The Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend The Intense, Unpredictable, And Volatile Relationship
by Christine Ann Lawson /
2016 / English / PDF
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The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face,
her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is
crucial to survival. In this book, Dr. Christine Ann Lawson vividly
describes how mothers who suffer from borderline personality
disorder produce children who may flounder in life even as adults,
futilely struggling to reach the safety of a parental harbor,
unable to recognize that their borderline parent lacks a pier, or
even a discernible shore. Four character profiles describe
different symptom clusters that include the waif mother, the hermit
mother, the queen mother, and the witch. Children of borderlines
are at risk for developing this complex and devastating personality
disorder themselves. Dr. Lawson's recommendations for prevention
include empathic understanding of the borderline mother and early
intervention with her children to ground them in reality.
Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who
work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without
rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to
love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the
witch without becoming her victim.
The first love in our lives is our mother. Recognizing her face,
her voice, the meaning of her moods, and her facial expressions is
crucial to survival. In this book, Dr. Christine Ann Lawson vividly
describes how mothers who suffer from borderline personality
disorder produce children who may flounder in life even as adults,
futilely struggling to reach the safety of a parental harbor,
unable to recognize that their borderline parent lacks a pier, or
even a discernible shore. Four character profiles describe
different symptom clusters that include the waif mother, the hermit
mother, the queen mother, and the witch. Children of borderlines
are at risk for developing this complex and devastating personality
disorder themselves. Dr. Lawson's recommendations for prevention
include empathic understanding of the borderline mother and early
intervention with her children to ground them in reality.
Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who
work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without
rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to
love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the
witch without becoming her victim.
