Russell Meares is a professor emeritus of psychiatry at Sydney University. He lives in Australia.
"Meares does an excellent job of integrating the relevant
brain/neuroscience research . . . There are compelling hypotheses
drawn . . . very thought-provoking. . . . I would recommend these
two books to anyone who works with borderline patients. . . .
[O]utstanding for the researcher/theoretician and is
thought-provoking for the clinician as well."
*The National Psychologist*
"This new book by Meares is a significant contribution to the BPD
field, and reinforces the importance of narrative telling in the
co-creation of self and other within psychotherapy."
*Psychotherapy in Australia*
"These two companion volumes together make a remarkable and
original contribution to the theoretical and clinical literature on
borderline personality disorder (BPD). . . . [T]his is the most
comprehensive, evidence-based, and theoretically integrated model
of BPD that I have read."
*Journal of Analytical Psychology*
"[A] fascinating and easy-to-read book, by an author with broad
clinical experience and scholarship, who has been working with
patients with BPD for over 30 years and has conducted an amazing
number of empirical studies in this field. . . . The history of
dissociation . . . is presented in a fascinating way, intermingled
with sketches of patients treated by the author. This blending of
historical and clinical knowledge will make the book interesting
for both researchers and clinicians. . . . I would recommend this
volume to both psychiatrists and psychotherapists."
*Journal of Psychiatric Practice*
"From PTSD and borderline personality to distancing procedures and
emotional responses to trauma, this is packed with insights any
analyst can use."
*Midwest Book Review*
"With this fascinating book, Professor Russell Meares has created a
magnificent piece of work, based on the premise that Borderline
Personality Disorder (BPD) is a 'failure of personal synthesis.'
Understanding this integrative failure is essential in the
treatment of patients suffering from this incapacitating
biopsychosocial disorder. Starting with the pioneering studies of
Hughlings Jackson, Pierre Janet, and William James, Meares
thoroughly examines the theoretical, scientific, and clinical
evidence for his model of BPD. The book's great value surpasses the
domain of BPD proper and should attract a much wider readership
than BPD specialists only."
*Onno van der Hard, PhD, Emeritus Professor of Psychopathology of
Chronic Traumatization, Utrecht University, The Netherlands*
"This highly readable, brilliant book is a true masterpiece in the
contemporary study of psychopathology. Russell Meares's original
and evidence-based account of the core of borderline personality
disorder convincingly explicates its dissociative nature and its
relationships with impulsivity, hindered mentalization, and
traumatic memories. Meares offers clinicians a unique understanding
of the borderline patient's affects and inner experience of self,
thereby laying the foundation for highly effective therapeutic
exchanges."
*Giovanni Liotti, M.D., APC School of Psychotherapy, Rome,
Italy*
"This excellent book, the culmination of a distinguished career, is
vital for anyone seeking to understand the extreme mental suffering
of what we currently call BPD. Drawing from neuroscience,
historical scholarship, psychological research, and clinical
observation, Russell Meares offers an erudite, compassionate
account of the 'painful incoherence' at the heart of this disorder.
By synthesizing both left- and right-brain data into a useful
narrative, which is also a pleasure to read, he demonstrates on a
grand scale the integrative process that nourishes us all and
agonizingly eludes individuals with borderline psychologies."
*Nancy Williams, PhD, Rutgers Graduate School of Applied &
Professional Psychology*
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