Name: The Siren's Dance: Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (en Inglés)
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Author: Walker MD, Anthony
ISBN: 9781794612730

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The Siren's Dance: Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Anthony Walker MD

Editorial

Independently Published

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

194

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm

Peso

0.29 kg.

ISBN13

9781794612730

Categorías

Memorias

The Siren's Dance: Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder (en Inglés)

Anthony Walker MD (Autor) · Independently Published · Tapa Blanda

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Walker's disturbing memoir follows the relationship between the author (a psychiatrist) and his wife, Michelle, from its tumultuous beginning in 1985 to their ambivalent last good-bye three years later. The subtitle "a case study" attempts to maintain a professional distance from this devastating relationship, but it's all too clear that the illness from which Walker's wife suffered came close to dragging him down with her. Walker is first smitten by Michelle when, as a medical student, he encounters her on rounds, where she is presented as a recent suicide attempt. He can't understand how such a beautiful, sexy young woman would want to kill herself and returns to interview her for a school presentation. Despite warnings from his teacher, friends and father, he falls deeply in love and is drawn into her world, only to emerge with great difficulty a year later. Walker, an outgoing, athletic, cheerful young man, relinquishes more and more of himself to Michelle and gradually becomes isolated, depressed, devious and even violent as he tries to cope with-and ultimately escape from-Michelle. Walker, who now treats teenage girls with borderline personality disorder, is not an expert writer. His dialogues often sound as if the speakers learned English as a second language. But this intimate narrative, showing how the best intentions of a na