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Siren's Dance : Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder by Anthony Walker (2019, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherIndependently Published
ISBN-101794612734
ISBN-139781794612730
eBay Product ID (ePID)7038544808
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Book TitleSiren's Dance : Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
Number of Pages194 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPersonal Memoirs
Publication Year2019
GenreBiography & Autobiography
AuthorAnthony Walker
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight10.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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SynopsisWalker's disturbing memoir follows the relationship between the author (a psychiatrist) and his wife, Michelle, from its tumultuous beginning in 1985 to their ambivalent last good-bye three years later. The subtitle "a case study" attempts to maintain a professional distance from this devastating relationship, but it's all too clear that the illness from which Walker's wife suffered came close to dragging him down with her. Walker is first smitten by Michelle when, as a medical student, he encounters her on rounds, where she is presented as a recent suicide attempt. He can't understand how such a beautiful, sexy young woman would want to kill herself and returns to interview her for a school presentation. Despite warnings from his teacher, friends and father, he falls deeply in love and is drawn into her world, only to emerge with great difficulty a year later. Walker, an outgoing, athletic, cheerful young man, relinquishes more and more of himself to Michelle and gradually becomes isolated, depressed, devious and even violent as he tries to cope with-and ultimately escape from-Michelle. Walker, who now treats teenage girls with borderline personality disorder, is not an expert writer. His dialogues often sound as if the speakers learned English as a second language. But this intimate narrative, showing how the best intentions of a na
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