Therapist and Client Are Equals | MARSHA LINEHAN

The therapist shouldn't be 'above' the client. On a human level, the two are equal.

Marsha Linehan, creator of the highly-regarded Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), discusses Borderline Personality Disorder from the viewpoint of a clinician / researcher of the highest caliber.

[luisverdin]

Marsha, you are one of the kindest, smartest, hard-working and loving people who ever walked on earth. Thank you for giving so many of us the chance to get out of hell. We’ve never met and probably we never will but I love you and I love what you have contributed to humanity

[le_th_]

The more I listen to Marsha Linehan, the more humble and egalitarian I see her as being.

[c.brownell]

I have not encountered a humble therapist before stumbling upon Marsha Linehan.

[ChristopherOdegard-le]

This is the most beautiful thing about Marsha and why she has helped so many people. She has sass too which is even more amazing

[happylindsay]

I spoke about this in therapy- it was not reciprocal.

[nunyabizness]

Love this! My therapist and I have this relationship of equals, and it works quite well. If I ever thought of myself as "less than, " or thought he was treating me as "less than, " I'm 100% positive that would never work for me or my system (DID). This concept is so important in doing the work of therapy. Thank you for these videos.

[yugiohrajat]

At the NHS Inspired Clinic in London, a friend of mine was officially referred to as a 'customer' (on the billion different unnecessary forms they were required to fill out). If anyone is on their waiting list or about to start with them - think twice! You do not want to be a person with BPD assigned to an inexperienced, culturally-intolerant therapist who is further bound by NHS bureaucracy. None of this puts you on an equal plane to your therapist and makes you feel pretty crappy.

[margomae]

One OP center used “mural recovery” which I though was a intelligent use of terminology

[garrieleepeck]

iv been doing this since feb got to feb to go im still not understanding any of it iv asked the staff over n over for help they no listening but the bad thing is 25 years iv waited for help begging in britian so hard to get help i find it really sad how they treating me they knew at the start im not great at reading n writing you get one chance thats it what the point if staff not helping iv had this since 10 11 years old im 44 iv had no help im struggling with ever day iv not missed one im so tired fighting this system tired feeling unwell i dont no now were its all going to end

[daniellep.]

I was diagnosed with BPD dozens of years ago. I have searched for help for years. I have struggled against the use of drugs and constantly struggle with my emotions and have no hope that I will find peace. I am currently in a program that only makes me more anxious about my situation. I believe nothing can truly subside my emotional state of constant unrest. I have tried through medication ( and constant stigma and incomprehension) and without for too long. I just want to give up despite the factthat I KNOW!! Help me please

[kahlodiego]

My therapist shamed me Like my crazy mom. This woman who said she understood about trauma bitched at me and manipulated me.

[concernedhumanman]

I think the whole proprietary scheme of things needs to stop in the "helping others" business. The whole industry of "professionals" is designed to keep people down to a level below those who are doing the helping. That defeats the whole cause. I have personally seen the value in people helping people. Because that's what really works. ANYONE can take a tool and learn how to use it as well as anyone else.
Furthermore. I do not agree with labeling BPD or any other problem. I also do not believe in having Linehan's name branded on a set of skills that are nothing more than life skills that people haven't been learning. They should be common knowledge. But they aren't. Why? Linehan certainly has no excuse considering she's been using them for decades. Why didn't she make this information become common knowledge for the home? Because she was busy building a money making system from it. And you can see the proof in her prices and services. She is catering to the profession rather than to those who need help. We basically have a bunch of suffering people walking around with BPD tags hanging around their necks, like cattle. Being led to believe "I am broken and weak and need help from the big people". I have been deep into DIY and Self Help for decades. And MOST people are capable of dramatically improving how they believe and feel RIGHT AT HOME. Without group therapy. Without some therapist. And most therapists have never walked a walk. So its a hypocrisy. Linehan wipes her ass the same as anyone else. She's not taller. She's not more important. Your life doesn't hang by her special thread. "DBT" is nothing more than human skills that have been around since the beginning. Hidden and guarded by political entities who want people to be weak, dumb, and stupid. Hence the reason why schools do not teach life skills. It can be hard for an adult to learn a set of life skills after already having learned the wrong ones. But its doable. ANd its important to know that if you have kids, its important for you to learn them so that your kids might pick them up. People are powerful. Its the money loving population that needs the poor and suffering in order to keep their riches pouring in. I place a lot more value on the underdogs than I do on Linehan who is basking in some kind of false fame.