Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2002. Originally Published: Revolution on the Horizon, May/June 2001; pp. 26+.
"Long before the ambiguous and insulting term was coined by a male psychoanalyst 60 years ago, the people we now call 'borderlines' were public health nightmares, islands of intractable misery, and the bane of many a psychotherapist's existence. A century of shifting diagnostic labels and rising feminist sympathies cannot paper over therapy's signal failure with them." (PSYCHOTHERAPY NETWORKER) This article examines the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders criteria for borderline personality disorder and discusses how dialectical behavioral therapy helps borderlines restore emotional balance.