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Understanding Borderline Trauma: Rita Marshall

Category: Health
Duration: 00:55:57
Publish Date: 2013-10-01 05:38:38
Description:

Why are so many trauma survivors, especially women, diagnosed “borderline?” Is the label useful — or sexist and degrading? How can people who live through intergenerational violence be understood and supported — instead of discounted and silenced?

Rita Marshall, human rights activist and former psychiatric inmate from a family of Holocaust survivors, examines the social and political context for the controversial “Borderline Personality Disorder” diagnosis.

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