Understanding the Borderline Mother, Christine Ann Lawson
Understanding the Borderline Mother, Christine Ann Lawson
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Understanding the Borderline Mother
Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship

Author: Christine Ann Lawson

Narrator: Heather Auden

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2016

Synopsis

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.

About Christine Ann Lawson

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 15, 2023

I found this summary of the book's key ideas helpful, and edited it a bit. Borderline Personality Disorder can manifest differently, depending on a person's general personality strategy for dealing with the same core issues. A person can also manifest aspects of other subtypes at times, even though......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on April 13, 2015

Wish no one needed this book but if you do, it's a good resource to help you understand your crazy childhood. Creepy-relatable and you will walk around in a daze after realizing your hell was a thing, not as much of an anomaly as you probably thought.......more

Goodreads review by amaya on October 21, 2015

just a brief review: throughout this whole book, i kept having to remind myself that i've never met christine, nor did she live with me whilst i was growing up! this book has helped me immensely; it actually made me cry tears of relief when i realised that i wasn't alone, and my therapist and i used......more

Goodreads review by Nicole on June 10, 2024

How dare you write about me. I found myself more shocked than expected to have myself as an adult child of a borderline mother described so well.......more

Goodreads review by Terri on January 21, 2020

Was your childhood full of loss and/or emotional abandonment or abuse? Was your mother extremely moody, clingy, helpless, angry, unpredictable, crazy, rejecting, etc.? If you had/have a borderline mother, she might be quoted on every page or so of this well researched book. And if you have some trai......more

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