This book was published in 2004 so I feel it’s very outdated now in 2020. I am diagnosed with BPD myself so I picked this up to learn more about myself. I found the science behind bpd very interesting, but I also found there’s a lot of negative stereotypes and misconceptions in this book which ultimately lowered my rating.
I understand that for each chapter/symptom it’s written as a worst case scenario but I wouldn’t like somebody to read this book and come away thinking that every borderline is like that, and conveys worse case scenarios of every symptom.
The media has always painted borderlines in such a negative light, and I felt that this book continued to do that even while educating on the science behind the illness. I found the way borderlines were described in part of the second to last chapter to be slightly offensive. We are not manipulative, guilt tripping or needy. We are not ‘unwanted borderline patients’.

TLDR; science was great, description of borderlines was not so great.