Wired for chaos Origins of personality disorders and coping mechanisms

Wired for Chaos explores the territory of personality disorders and the psychological attributes that characterize them, and how these patterns have developed from early child experiences of chaos, trauma, and inadequate ways of surviving. Blending contemporary research and humanism, the book elucidates the sources of disorders including borderline, narcissistic, antisocial, and paranoid personality, to name a few - but not as such fixed entities or categories, but as defensive reactions to feeling overwhelmed by emotional experience. It is a compassionate but unsparing look at how chaos can become identity - and how those affected, and those around them, can begin to heal. Filled with practical coping tools, in-the-moment strategies, and the science behind the symptoms, Wired for Chaos is the first book of its kind, offering a first-of-its-kind resource for mental health professionals and people in the position of identifying mental illness and caregiving, as well as practitioners looking to better understand their clients.