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Professor who developed therapy for uncurable mental illnesses wins 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology
The institute’s mission is to transfer the principles of dialectical behavior therapy to more practitioners and to aid current practitioners with the burnout that can come with working with heard-to-treat patients. Professor who developed therapy for ‘uncurable’ mental illnesses wins 2017 Grawemeyer Award in Psychology By MELISSA CHIPMAN | December 3, 2016 6:00 am Marsha Linehan, director of University of Washington’s Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics, Center for Behavioral Technology, has been selected as the 2017 Grawemeyer Award winner in Psychology. Disorders like borderline personality and suicidal ideation have long been considered nearly impossible to treat, but Linehan has developed dialectical behavior therapy, which has shown positive effects during studies.…
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When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment
From being slapped to being shamed, members of marginal communities have few places to seek help for mental illnesses. When bigotry invades mental healthcare: Women, sexual minorities are most vulnerable to harassment Prateek Sharma “I was talking about my nightmares to my therapist and while in the middle of that I accidentally told him that I am a bisexual and out of nowhere he just slapped me and asked me to go away. The incident did make me badly depressed, took a toll on my health and everything. I already have ADD and OCD and that’s what I was seeing the therapist for. So the depression just doubled from there…
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Healing with paint: How the pioneer of art therapy helped millions of mental health patients
Lisa Buttery, a 25-year-old artist who works at Brighton University, shares Molloy’s experiences. She has been dealing with borderline personality disorder since her teens, and has used art in therapy and as a creative outlet. Healing with paint: How the pioneer of art therapy helped millions of mental health patients Edward Adamson was the first artist to be employed in a UK hospital. Kashmira Gander explores how his studio was an oasis of calm in a harsh twentieth century mental hospital, and how his legacy lives on. Kashmira Gander @kashmiragander Wednesday 7 September 2016 It is the late 1990s and once again Gary Molloy’s severe bipolar disorder has hospitalised him.…
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Therapists’ Fear of Borderline Personality Disorder Persists
Relationship instability is a feature of BPD, and clinicians may be wary of patients with whom establishing a therapeutic bond could be difficult. Therapists’ Fear of Borderline Personality Disorder Persists Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC March 01, 2016 Many therapists share the general stigma that surrounds patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Some even avoid working with such patients because of the perception that they are difficult to treat. As reported in Social Science & Medicine last year, interviews with 22 mental health clinicians in the United States1 suggest that the BPD diagnosis “can sometimes operate as a cue to healthcare providers that they should anticipate this patient will be hard…
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What it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder
These external acts are based in self-loathing or self-hatred and feelings that you are not good enough. You feel this so deeply that you can’t control your actions. What it’s like to live with Borderline Personality Disorder Meet Sonia Neale. She’s 45. The recipient of SANE Australia’s inaugural 2014 Barbara Hocking Fellowship. And a sufferer of Borderline Personality Disorder. by Michael Sheather Aug 27, 2015 BPD is a personality disorder of extreme emotions. When you have somebody criticize you or judge you or say something about you, it triggers a response that is simple horrendous and over the top. It might be shouting or anger and resentment in terms of…
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Advocacy needed for borderline personality disorder
Although BPD was just as frequent, impairing and lethal — if not more — as bipolar disorder, it receives a tenth of the research funding. Advocacy needed for borderline personality disorder Dane Wanniarachige, Windsor, Ont. August 4, 2015 Experts say that lack of advocacy for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) means it garners scant attention or resources and insufficient funding for research. One family says these shortfalls cost them their daughter’s life. Four years after her first suicide attempt Sasha Menu Courey was finally diagnosed with BPD and given treatment. People with BPD have poor ability to regulate their emotions, which leads to amplification of all feelings — anger,…
