“People with BPD are not a different kind of person”: Dr. Alexander Kriss, author of Borderline

 

What can a psychoanalyst learn from patients with BPD? In this interview, Dr. Alexander Kriss, author of the recently published Borderline: Biography of a Personality Disorder, shares insights gained from treating patients with the disorder. We discuss his book, which tells the story of one patient’s recovery while also deconstructing the BPD diagnosis and the broader conceptions of madness and femininity that have created an ever-shifting but ever-present space for people harrying the line between neurosis and psychosis from antiquity to the present day.

 

Alexander Kriss, Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder

Alexander Kriss, The Gaming Mind: A New Psychology of Videogames and the Power of Play

Link to Alexander Kriss’s New York-based psychotherapy practice

Alicia Elliott, “A Mind Spread Out on the Ground”

Sigmund Freud, A Case of Hysteria (Dora) and Three Case Histories

Edvard Munch, The Scream