Recovery is possible! Reports from borderline personality disorder (BPD) sufferers

By Andreas Knuf

Subject:
Roads to recovery from BPD

Target audience:
Therapists, doctors, care workers, family members of BPD sufferers as well as those affected by the illness who want to learn from the experiences of others who are affected and of those who have recovered.

Content:

The book provides a fascinating kaleidoscope of the roads to recovery from BPD. It gives young people with this mental dysfunction hope and explains which steps other sufferers have taken.
This book not only shows that recovery is possible but also how to achieve it. For this purpose Andreas Knuf asked sufferers to describe theirs roads to recovery. It is not surprising that the factors and preconditions mentioned as being important to everyone were very similar: People who stayed in contact even during the onset of the illness; therapists who were noticeably human and took the sufferer seriously; self-help and the decision to make their own choices. The roads taken to get there are, in contrast, totally individual in the same way that recovery itself is a process of development, which can take different courses.

Reviews

"I’ve waited a long time for this kind of book... I’d like to thank the authors for giving us such a profound insight into their (inner) lives." A reader, Amazon

Author:

Andreas Knuf, born 1966, psychological psychotherapist, worked for a crisis intervention service in Munich and later in a psychiatric day clinic. Since 2001 he has worked for the Swiss foundation Pro Mente Sana in Zurich. Many publications.

Original title:

"Gesundung ist möglich! Borderline-Betroffene berichten"

BALANCE buch + medien verlag, Bonn, ISBN 978-3-86739-034-7, 250 Pages, €14.90
First published in 2008.

For further information please contact: Ms Kerstin Zander.