"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." Â Frederick Douglass
This book focuses on an area in abnormal psychology known as "personality disorders." In both psychology and psychiatry, personality disorders are a special kind of mental health condition. Â This book takes a sensitive thoughtful approach to the subject of personality disorders.Â
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Psychiatrists use terms such as narcissist, borderline, schizoid, and histrionic to describe types of dysfunctional human personalities. Â What do these terms mean and what distinguishes these individuals from the rest of us? Â This book explores these personality types, and others, in term of behaviors, traits, and thought processes. In addition, it seeks to explain the possible roots of these unique disorders.
- BorderlineÂ
- Narcissism
- Histrionic
- Schizoid
- Avoidant
- Dependent
- Self-Defeating
- Codependency
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After reading this book, it is my sincere hope that the reader will walk away with a genuine understanding of borderline personality, narcissistic personality, histrionic personality, avoidant personality, schizoid personality disorder, dependent personality, and codependent personality. Â It is also my hope that for those individuals who suffer with these particular disorders this book might be a possible first step in the "healing process." Â Despite what conventional psychiatry suggests about the long-term prognosis for these disorders some degree of healing is always possible in determined insightful individuals.Â
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In addition, while many will argue the precise cause of personality disorders, the connection between childhood neglect/abuse and later developing a wounded or damaged personality seems undeniable.
