A practical guide to an affect-based approach to borderline personality disorder

The brain, as a physical organ, and affects, as embodied information from the body, are absent from current paradigms explaining borderline personality disorders. By re-establishing the right place for affects and the brain, the people concerned can consciously and actively free themselves from the biological chains that make them up. "In childhood, the brain creates consciousness; in adulthood, consciousness helps the brain.

This practical guide offers healthcare professionals a new approach to communicating the latest advances in personality disorders, constructivist neuroscience and the theory of constructed emotion in an accessible and caring way, while generating hope.

Throughout the guide, in addition to the scientific and medical content, the reader will be immersed in a fictional interview between a psychiatrist and Alex, living with borderline personality disorder.