Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder
Also known as Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (1993), Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
Marsha Linehan's 1993 textbook that first set out dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)
At a glance
What it argues
Acceptance and change, The biosocial theory
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Dialectical dilemmas, Targets, Validation and problem solving …
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Time
Read next
DBT Skills Training Manual, Cognitive-behavioral treatment of chronically parasuicidal borderline patients, Building a Life Worth Living
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Marsha Linehan, Dialectical behavior therapy and 3 others
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- People with borderline personality disorder are often seen as the hardest, most insoluble cases.
- Linehan's answer is a therapy that balances acceptance and change: dialectical behavior therapy.
- The book gives its biosocial theory, its treatment targets, and its strategies: validation, problem solving, skills training, exposure and case management.
- DBT was the first psychotherapy shown in controlled trials to work for BPD.
Why it matters
- The full theory and practice of DBT, for clinicians who will deliver it to clients with complex, multiple problems.
- Its publisher quotes a reviewer calling it 'the bible of DBT'.
Key facts
- Author
- Marsha M. Linehan1
- Published
- May 19931
- Publisher
- Guilford Press1
- Pages
- 5581
- ISBN
- 9780898621839 (hardcover)1
- Audience
- Clinicians delivering DBT1
- Influence
- More than 175,000 copies in print1
What it argues
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Acceptance and change2
Therapy must balance and synthesize acceptance-oriented and change-oriented strategies; Linehan calls this 'a synthesis or integration of opposites'.
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The biosocial theory2
A biological predisposition to emotional dysregulation meets a social environment that validates maladaptive behavior.
Key ideas
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Dialectical dilemmas1
Behavioral patterns that pull therapy between extremes in the treatment of borderline patients.
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Targets1
Treatment is structured around behaviors to increase and decrease, and who treats what and when.
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Validation and problem solving1
The two core strategies of the treatment.
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Change procedures1
Contingency management, skills training, exposure and cognitive modification.
Criticism and limits
Read next
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The companion volume with the skills taught in groups.
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Cognitive-behavioral treatment of chronically parasuicidal borderline patients
The 1991 trial showing the treatment worked.
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Linehan's memoir of how and why she built DBT.
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