“I thought that mental health problems were something that you caught while young”: Lucy Yanow
Can recreational drugs be used to treat BPD in controlled environments? In this interview, I talk with Lucy Yanow, who holds a master’s degree in Bioethics and Society and formerly worked as a midwife...
15 Jan 202527min
The book that saves lives: Mishell Baker’s Borderline
How can an urban fantasy novel save lives? By depicting a protagonist with BPD who is resourceful, loyal, and heroic. In Borderline, the first book in the Arcadia Project trilogy, author and BPD survi...
1 Jan 202544min
“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 ...
15 Des 202442min
“It's Upon Us to Widen That Lens”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tourniquet
Why should we draw on the field of disability studies to envision, treat, and talk about BPD? In this second and final part of my interview with Professor Lisa Johnson, author of Girl in Need of a Tou...
1 Des 202441min
“A Vulnerability Artist Who Fights Ableism”: Dr. Merri Lisa Johnson on BPD
What does writing from the frontline of BPD look like? If the author is borderline up-ender Dr. Lisa Johnson, it looks and sounds like a witty, raw, and dazzling conflagration. In this interview, she ...
15 Nov 202447min
Movement therapy for BPD with psychotherapist Ellis Amdur
Can movement therapy support people with BPD? In this interview, psychotherapist, licensed martial artist, and acclaimed writer Ellis Amdur describes his success with teaching baduanjin qigong, a Chin...
1 Nov 202420min
“There is no final destination for a human being”: Psychotherapist Ellis Amdur
How do therapists come to think of BPD after a long career? In this conversation with Ellis Amdur—a retired psychotherapist, award-winning writer, and licensed martial artist—he offers his perspective...
15 Okt 202431min
“He was provoking all these symptoms he had wanted to cure”: Nina Shope, author of Asylum
How have power dynamics between doctors and patients changed over the past century and a half? In my second and final interview with Nina Shope, author of the award-winning historical novel Asylum, we...
1 Okt 202435min
