Back from the Edge

Back from the Edge

#A Landmark Documentary-Style Short Film


(5.3 from 3 users)

0h 49m 2006 HD

A landmark documentary style short film that features compelling and dramatic first-person accounts of people living with, and recovering from, Borderline Personality Disorder. The production also features family members as well as leading clinicians, including Otto F. Kernberg, MD; Marsha Linehan, PhDl John Gunderson, MD; Wayne Fenton, MD; and Perry Hoffman, PhD, who put their stories into a broader social and medical context.


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