Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship
Christine Ann Lawson
Dec 2016 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Heather Auden
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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.
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 fl...
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7 reviews
Dominique Dodge
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January 13, 2020
Well read. I can't say I enjoyed this book but it was easy to listen to. Honestly this book has illuminated so much for me about my childhood and has helped me understand my mother. I highly recommend this for anyone with a mother or wife with BPD. Understanding my Mom has helped me to forgive her and has validated my decision to go no contact with her. It's getting better. It gets better. It's not your fault.
Danielle Cross
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July 17, 2019
Read it and get everyone you know to read it. And then stop letting these Borderline people continue their behaviour.
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About the author
Christine Ann Lawson is a clinical social worker in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has previously served as adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and Butler University.
Heather Auden is a talented voice-over artist whose work spans commercials, corporate videos, award-winning documentaries, and audiobooks. She has dedicated many years to dramatic vocal training, including theater studies at San Diego State University and classical voice at the Hartt School of Music.
Christine Ann Lawson is a clinical social worker in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana. She has previously served as adjunct faculty at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and Butler University.
Heather Auden is a talented voice-over artist whose work spans commercials, cor...
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