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Name: Through the looking glass
Author: Dana Becker

📘 Through the looking glass by Dana Becker

Through the looking glass examines the relationship between gender, female socialization, and the experience of psychological distress identified as borderline personality disorder. The book emphasizes how sociocultural roles and expectations contribute to the development of borderline symptoms, providing valuable perspectives for psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and graduate students in mental health, gender studies, sociology, and the history of medicine.

First publish date: 1997

Genre: Psychology/Social Psychology

Authors: Dana Becker

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