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rbruehlman 's review for:
I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
by Jerold J. Kreisman
Overall, the book gives a comprehensive breakdown of not only what borderline personality disorder is, but how it comes about and what can be done to treat it. In this respect, the book is a handy, informative guide for anyone interested in BPD. The book presented little that I didn't already know, but having read quite a bit about BPD, this is hardly a complaint. It covers the basics, which is all it sets out to do.
The book's only failing, I feel, was with the "Borderline Society" chapter, and I don't think anyone would lose much by skipping this part. I lost a bit of respect for Kreisman in reading it, in fact. Kreisman unfortunately makes himself sound like a bitter, jaded old man harping the perennial "the new, morally corrupt generation is the ruin of us all" that older generations have been wailing for millennia. Are there certain aspects of society today that contribute to the development of a borderline personality? Sure, there's higher rate of divorce, less prescribed societal roles, less interaction with extended family... but then, what society in any age doesn't have its ills? The chapter unravels into a doom's day diatribe about the evils of social media and technology, which I think is more reflective of Kreisman's personal gripes about technology (which he is entitled to) than to any actual substantial threat of "borderline"-izaton of society.
The book's only failing, I feel, was with the "Borderline Society" chapter, and I don't think anyone would lose much by skipping this part. I lost a bit of respect for Kreisman in reading it, in fact. Kreisman unfortunately makes himself sound like a bitter, jaded old man harping the perennial "the new, morally corrupt generation is the ruin of us all" that older generations have been wailing for millennia. Are there certain aspects of society today that contribute to the development of a borderline personality? Sure, there's higher rate of divorce, less prescribed societal roles, less interaction with extended family... but then, what society in any age doesn't have its ills? The chapter unravels into a doom's day diatribe about the evils of social media and technology, which I think is more reflective of Kreisman's personal gripes about technology (which he is entitled to) than to any actual substantial threat of "borderline"-izaton of society.