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You know how, when you're reading a book, the beginning of a chapter will often consist of an overview, some talking points, maybe a high-level overview of the material to be covered in more depth in the remainder of the chapter? Okay, now imagine an ENTIRE BOOK made up of nothing but high-level introductory overview material. As I read it, I kept waiting for the authors to say "OKAY, now that we've done the overview, let's really get into the meat of the material" and you know what? They NEVER DID. The entire book was superficial, general, generic, devoid of specifics or any kind of organizational structure that would help tie it all together. In a sense, it was like reading a term paper written by a high school student who started the paper at 10 pm the night before it was due and compensated for the lack of material by triple-spacing each page. My wife has BPD. Unlike a lot of BPD people, she knows she has BPD. What she doesn't have are strategies for dealing with it, and maybe, if we're lucky, we'll find a mental health professional who can walk her through a program of DBT (Dialectical behavior therapy). In the meanwhile, though, I went into this book hoping to learn some coping strategies to help myself help her and try to minimize the amount of time we spent in pointless arguments and fights. Didn't get any of that. But I DID get endless, endless self-references to the authors' other works. They self-cite their other books on average about once every five pages. It smacked of multi-level marketing seminars where they keep trying to rope you in to buy additional manuals and stuff and you keep hoping that the next one you buy will be the REAL one, the one with all the stuff you're really after. My advice: don't buy this book. See also: [...] for information about the large number of fake reviews for this book.