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DBT for All: Making Mental Health Skills More Accessible

How a new self-help book is making the evidence-based skills from dialectical behavior therapy more concrete, fun, and available—even if you don't have a therapist.

On Dialectics and Disappearance

DBT is made of a soft enough fabric, but you can trace the threads of applied behavioral analysis in its lineage if you know where the seams are, or if you are me and your fingers...

Why Start Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder With Values?

Rather than focusing only on symptom reduction, values-based treatment helps people build a life worth moving toward.

Want to Deal with High-Stress Situations Better? This Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Tool Can Help  

The four-step STOP survival skill can help you calm down before you blow up.  The post Want to Deal with High-Stress Situations Better? This Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Tool Can...

What Is BPD Compass?

Learn how BPD Compass personalizes treatment by targeting the personality processes driving each person's symptoms.

New Therapy Approach Helps Prevent People with Borderline Personality Disorder from Quitting Treatment

When You Never Feel Good Enough in Relationships: A DBT Exercise for Low Self-Esteem and Insecure Attachment

Do you ever find yourself watching your phone, wondering why someone hasn’t replied? […]

Book of the Day: Real Skills for Real Life: A DBT Guide to Navigating Stress, Emotions, and Relationships

NPR brought to my attention book by Shireen Rizvi and Jesse Finkelstein, co-authors of Real Skills for Real Life: A DBT Guide to Navigating Stress, Emotions, and Relationships. On...

When Your Teen Resists Therapy, Try Curiosity

Getting a resistant teen into therapy rarely works through better arguments. Two ideas borrowed from Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer a more effective way in.

Not All People With BPD Are the Same—Why Is Their Treatment?

The same BPD symptom can arise from different psychological processes. Effective treatment should target what's driving the behavior, not just the diagnosis.

The Therapist Within: An Internal Call to Heal

There is a paradox at the heart of compassion in relationships. When available whenever needed, it’s seldom needed. Knowing that it’s available when needed reduces the self-doubt...

When Symptom-Focused Psychotherapy Isn't Enough

What is the "daimonic" and how is it addressed in psychotherapy?