Medically reviewed by Geralyn Dexter, PhD, LMHC Key Takeaways Dialectical behavior therapy helps people manage intense ...

Marsha Linehan as a faculty member at The Catholic University of America in the 1970s. Dr. Marsha Linehan, used with permission I have done many hard things in my life. But the most devastating was ...

DBT was originally developed to help people with thoughts of suicide manage overwhelming distress. DBT teaches you to replace unhelpful behaviors with skills like mindfulness and distress tolerance.

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