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Introduction

With the 1987 movie, “Fatal Attraction,” Adrian Lyne and Paramount Pictures provide an opportunity to visualize the illness, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). This disease is characterized by chronic urges for self-injury, overwhelming emotions, impulsivity, and unstable and/or conflictual relationships. BPD can be quite disabling because one’s focus is on the struggle to get through each day. This guide will assist the reader, while viewing the movie, “Fatal Attraction,” in learning about this illness and its effect on people who have it, as well as the people in their lives, including treatment providers.

To make the best use of this guide:

1.VIEW THE FILM IN ITS ENTIRETY, then

2.READ THE GUIDE, SECTION BY SECTION, AS YOU REVIEW THE CORRESPONDING SCENE FROM THE FILM.