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Watch Dr. Marsha Linehan discuss DBT
University of Washington, Seattle ~ April 2-3, 2011 National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder 9th Annual National Institute of Mental Health Conference Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) State of the Art and Science Keynote Speaker Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D., ABPP Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics DBT: Essential Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes http://www.borderlinepersonalitydisorder.com/Conferences/Seattle/Linehan_video.shtml No related posts.
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Polls and Ineffective Borderline Behavior
I’ve had conversations with several BPD “experts” about borderline behavior. There seems to be an assumption that many people with BPD are “silent” or “high-functioning” and do not engage in dangerous and/or ineffective behavior often attributed to the “typical” borderline. In my group recently, a non-BPD was questioning his own “sanity” (I put it in quotes because I don’t believe that people with BPD are insane) and speculating that he was the one with BPD. One of our longer-time posters replied: If you’re not throwing full-blown temper tantrums, freaking out because EVERYONE is out to get you, threatening to hurt or kill yourself, running away from those who love you…
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A disturbing purchase from an ATSTP Link
Each day, I check my Amazon Associates account to see what has been purchased the previous day. Amazon is a day behind – it’s not “real-time” reporting – so I get the purchases of books, eBooks and other products that have been linked into my Recommended Reading List or by people who click out of the list and buy something else. Yesterday, one of the people who clicked through on my website bought a copy of Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying, which is a fairly well-known guide to suicide and how to make sure that suicide is successful. I suspect you all can see…
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WHINE sells over 100 copies in a month
I am pleased to announce that When Hope is Not Enough: a how-to guide for living with and loving someone with Borderline Personality Disorder sold over 100 copies last month for the first time since the first month of it’s publication. I have received many messages from my readers about how helpful the book can be for loved ones of people with BPD. (Of course, I’ve received a few complaints too). WHINE is a book about staying with a person with BPD. It is NOT a guide to splitting up and/or disowning someone with BPD. It grew out of my experiences with my wife and daughter with BPD/BPDish traits. I…
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Can therapy actually hurt borderlines?
A brief but detailed excerpt from the article “Progress in the treatment of borderline personality disorder” by Bateman and Fonagy indicating that some traditional approaches to therapy with borderlines can be harmful to the borderline: IATROGENESIS, PSYCHOTHERAPY AND BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER Pharmacological studies routinely explore the potential harm that a well-intentioned treatment may cause. In the case of psychosocial treatments we all too readily assume that at worst such treatments are inert. However, there may be particular disorders where psychotherapy represents a significant risk to the patient. Whatever the mechanisms of therapeutic change might be, traditional psychotherapeutic approaches depend for their effectiveness on the capacity of the individual to consider…
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Borderlines vs. Psychopaths
Just a note or two on BPD vs psychopathy… Firstly, when shown the Ekman faces (just google it if you don’t know what those are), borderlines are likely to view neutral faces as angry and angry faces as extremely threatening. Borderlines think “that person is angry *at me*”. With fear faces, borderlines actually express empathy, even if Baron-Cohen says they don’t. I disagree with him in this regard. I believe the lack of empathy in borderlines occurs during a “failure to mentalize” and is not a general BPD trait. Psychopath’s brains only activate on fear faces. Disturbingly, they get “excited” about fear in others (i.e. the pleasure centers of the…