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I also found that she censored a great deal with regards to emotions experienced and relationship issues (were not explored to any great depth. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Everything in Marsha Linehan's life and remarkable memoir uncovers the dark--the hell of the unhappy self and the hell of inadequate help--and brings us into the light, with humor and detail in describing her grappling and growth, and her courage and vision of how to create a treatment for even the most unhappy of us. Marsha survived the kind of descent into hell that is characteristic of these patients, but/and she found her way out and vowed to use her life to help bring others out of that same hell. What I have instead are 'lightbulb memories," bright moments of recollection sparsely scattered across a dark canvas.

The remarkable memoir of the woman who developed DBT--the true story of how she transformed herself from a suicidal teenager to a world-renowned psychologist thanks to her own lifesaving therapy.

I would describe its impact on suicidal people, what other conditions it was proving to be beneficial for, and so on. Linehan was featured in a special issue of Time magazine, 'Great Scientists: The Geniuses and Visionaries Who Transformed Our World. I knew that my sister, Aline, would be there, and I had especially wanted my brothers, John, Earl, Marston, and Mike, to be there, but I wasn't sure Aline would be able to get them to come. Another example includes when Marsha tells one of her students to not mention their experience with mental illness in an application, which unfortunately makes sense within the stigma-ridden academic system we exist in. Reading the memoir of the remarkable mind behind dialectical behavioural therapy, one of the most groundbreaking treatment approaches in the history of mental health care, was pretty much as interesting and informative as you might expect.

I think at times she lost me when she switched from her narrative to explaining DBT and this crossed between memoir and self-help.

What I have instead are “lightbulb memories,” bright moments of recollection sparsely scattered across a dark canvas. Extremely smart, very quick, and not reluctant to give her opinion and to say when things didn’t make sense or weren’t supported by logic or data. Everything in Marsha Linehan's life and remarkable memoir uncovers the dark--the hell of the unhappy self and the hell of inadequate help--and brings us into the light, with humor and detail in her grappling and growth, and in her courage and vision of how to create a treatment for even the most unhappy of us. It has been shown both effective in reducing suicidal behavior and cost-effective in comparison to both standard treatment and community treatments delivered by expert therapists. Najczęściej spotykamy się już z produktem gotowym (który nierzadko jest pozbawiony człowieczeństwa) - tu na kilkuset stronach czytamy o porażkach, odrzuceniu, trudnych wyborach, szukaniu prawdy po omacku.

It’s certainly a decent book, but it likely will not interest anyone who doesn’t already have an interest in the founder of dialectical behavior therapy. Her journey in this book is covered quite thoroughly and her story delivered in conversational tone. Mother Teresa had a beautiful phrase that captures some of this: “Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. I was standing in front of an audience of about two hundred in a large auditorium at the Institute of Living, a renowned psychiatric institution in Hartford, Connecticut. And at almost every step of the way, I faced rejection after rejection that might easily have derailed me on my journey.

It's drawn out over the entire length of the book, and she won't stop mentioning things about how many people are going to be in the crowd or other comments on how big a deal this is.

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