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Building a life worth living : a memoir
Author
Title
Building a life worth living : a memoir / Marsha M. Linehan.
ISBN
9780812994612
0812994612
9780812994629
0812994620
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Random House, [2020]
Physical Description
xvii, 357 pages ; 25 cm
Notes
Includes index.
Summary
Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of the life-saving behavioral therapy DBT, using her own struggle to develop life skills for others.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2020
Contents
Foreword by Dr. Allen Frances
Part one. Building a life experienced as worth living
Descent into hell
I will prove them wrong
A traumatic invalidating environment
A stranger in a strange land
I had to leave Tulsa
Part two. On my way to Chicago
Intellectual and spiritual transformations
The path to thinking like a scientist
My enlightenment moment in the Cenacle Chapel
I have proved my point!
Love that came and went, came and went
A suicide clinic in Buffalo
The development of behaviorism and behavior therapy
Fitting in at last: small fish in a big pond
What have I done?
Finding a nurturing community
Like a fish on a hook
Finding a therapist, and an ironic twist
Part three. A thumbnail sketch of DBT
Finding my feet in Seattle and learning to live an anti-depressant life
My first research grant for behavior therapy and suicide
Science and spirituality
My fight for tenure
The birth of dialectical behavior therapy
Dialectics: the tension, or synthesis, between opposites
Learning acceptance skills
Not just acceptance-radical acceptance
Good advice from Willigis: keep going
Becoming a zen master
Trying to put zen into clinical practice
Mindfulness: we all have wise mind
DBT in clinical trial
Part four. The circle closes
A family at last
Going public with my story: the real origins of DBT.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Adolescent.
Self-Injurious Behavior.
Psychotherapy.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy.
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