Understanding someone with borderline personality disorder is a challenge. Fully grasping the complicated, often ambivalent, and almost constantly changing emotional and thought life of a person with borderline personality disorder is likely truly impossible for those who are not affected. However, this does not mean that one should give up or continue to cling to prejudices about the diagnosis. Even if something seems incomprehensible, one can still attempt to at least partially understand it. This book uses various illustrative comparisons, metaphors, and vivid descriptions to make the thoughts and feelings of a person with borderline personality disorder comprehensible, even for those inexperienced with it. On a "dream journey," the emotionally cold and very prejudiced St. learns...