Dr. Marsha Linehan Teaches Wise Mind

Marsha Linehan, the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), explains wise mind, the belief that all people have within themselves, the ability to be wise.

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[kiloloeverson]

Thank you simple and straight to the point. My goodness some of the materials I looked at confused me more.

[wecallhimchristwist]

After my brain injury (TBI), I have a similar idea. I think that the way to change your personal reality is by using logic with emotions. Our emotions give us a reason to solve a problem and logic helps us to solve the problem.

[Shortkonner]

Thank you. Just got workbook and therapisy

[rosarioesteban]

This video is great, I would love to add Spanish subtitles to it!

[thomasnugent]

Very informative and educational. Thank you very much.

[virathiyam]

I want to be the wise mind and I will be. Thank you for this.

[maryellenarmour]

I love Wise Mind. I teach it to my clients often.

[alex-craft]

So, it looks that what's called "Wisdom" is a hybrid thinking, using Reason (complex logical strategies) and Emotions (simple and robust evolutionary heuristics). Looks reasonable. This combination indeed could be better than either of those separately.

The problem of reasoning alone is that our modern understanding and our modern minds are very poor at dealing with uncertainty, missing information and errors. And real life cases have more of those things than data and facts. So pure rational mind loses. And here simple robust heuristics comes to help, provides kind of rough estimates and borderlines.

[digispace]

I am familiar with the model but what I can't seem to find is a practical example of how to use it. In this sense, it is useless to me. Maybe I am too tired and in Emotional mind but that would certainly help.

[connergoldberg]

I still don't get the point of emotions. What I want and desire can be measured in objectivity and reality. Saying that "my hopes/dreams don't matter = antithesis of emotion doesn't make sense because emotions can drive that decision (sadness, anxiety, envy, guilt) as well" Subjective experience is very important, but the ability to reflect on the fact our subjective experience isn't indicative of the experiences of others is also equally important. Personally I don't see wise mind as this 50/50 balance between the two but maybe 80/20.

[AllTaxisRYellow]

This is just eastern philosophy. This woman is a money maker