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Mark S. Silver presents a unique, humanistic perspective on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Using a psychosocial model, this book compellingly argues that a comprehensive and systematic understanding of a borderline individual's behaviors, emotions, and thought patterns can significantly enhance their quality of life, judgment, and decision-making.
By assigning clinical significance to seemingly minor behaviors, emotions, and thinking, we can unveil the underlying sources of fear, anxiety, sadness, uncertainty, guilt, and inner conflict in those with BPD. This book offers an expanded set of criteria that goes beyond what's found in the DSM-5, providing a more holistic understanding of BPD. It shows how the chaos within the borderline's internal world, fractured interpersonal communication, limited functioning, and isolation can be replaced with life-skills development, leading to an overall improved quality of life. This transformation allows the healthiest aspects of the person to emerge, fostering contentment, safety, stability, and authenticity.
Brief description: MARK S. SILVER is a New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and lawyer with a doctorate in psychology, masters in political science, and post-graduate certificate in family therapy. He is the author of several publications, including "Handbook of Mitigation in Criminal and Immigration Forensics: Humanizing the Client Towards a Better Legal Outcome" Seventh Edition (2021), "Psychosocial Evaluations and Consultation in Civil Litigation: Strategies to Understand and Humanize the Client" (2021), and two novels: The Mystery of the Dead Dean: Res Ipsa Loquitor (2018) and The Arranged Marriage: My Kalpa (2018).He has lectured to thousands of lawyers throughout the United States on a wide range of forensic issues with case samples. His primary focus is showing how psychosocial evaluations can assist lawyers to better understand the client's clinical issues, allowing for more informed legal advocacy. Since 2002, he has worked as a consultant for many law firms throughout the United States conducting psychosocial evaluations and writing formal forensic and mitigation reports in criminal, immigration, and personal injury cases. He has worked with clients from over 50 countries on various individual, family, and mental health issues. He has been qualified to provide expert testimony for numerous cases in Federal Immigration Court.