Dialectical behavior therapy can be transformative for anyone dealing with intense emotions. Extensive research has proven its effectiveness for all kinds of mental health issues. DBT was originally ...

Marsha Linehan as a faculty member at The Catholic University of America in the 1970s. Dr. Marsha Linehan, used with permission I have done many hard things in my life. But the most devastating was ...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy The predominant, most widely applied school of thought for psychotherapy with borderline personality disorder (BPD) is dialectical behavior therapy (DBT). Marsha Linehan, ...

Marsha Linehan is known worldwide as a top-notch clinician-researcher and as the developer of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, a psychological treatment shown to be effective for borderline personality ...

My curiosity about DBT began in grad school but didn't flourish until I met a select group of clients. What these people had in common is that they felt deeply, whose depression almost took its seat ...

The focus in DBT treatment is "radical" acceptance of oneself, while learning behavioral skills specifically designed to help overcome emotional vulnerability and to build a life worth living.