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* Borderline Personality Disorder and EMDR Therapy Dolores Mosquera & Anabel Gonzalez. A Caruña: Institute for the Treatment of Trauma and Personality Disorders. 2014, 314 pp., $45.00 (paperback)
Dolores Mosquera and Anabel Gonzalez have once again gifted us with their brilliant and insightful minds. Many of us have experienced the power of their clinical work at their many EMDR International Association conference presentations. We are fortunate that their two books on applications of EMDR therapy have been published in both Spanish and English. Their earlier book, EMDR and Dissociation: The Progressive Approach, first edition, revised, unified the theory of structural dissociation of the personality and EMDR. It has profoundly enriched work with clients who have dissociative disorders for many of us.
In Part 1 of Borderline Personality Disorder and EMDR Therapy, the authors integrate trauma and attachment theories, psychodynamic theories, the adaptive information processing (AIP) model and EMDR therapy, and structural dissociation as a framework to understand borderline personality disorder (BPD) and...