Mentalization Impairments
What is mentalizing? Good mentalizing is inquiring deeply into understanding the mental experiences of self or other. It is trying to...
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- May 9
Even better than therapy: Wiser Minds!
(But let's not give up the goal of getting your loved one into treatment!) Reviews of psychotherapy treatment outcome studies show that:...
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- May 9
Is it BPD or Narcisism or Anti-social or…?
It seems there is not much difference! If you look at the “DSM-5” (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) you know that...
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- Mar 18
Transactional Model of Emotional Dysregulation
by Corrine Stoewsand When an individual is emotionally sensitive and volatile, the people who are closest - family members, partners, and...
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- Mar 1
Emotional Regulation with Opposite Action
Opposite action is more than a skill. It is a philosophy of life. Like dialectics or radical acceptance or mindfulness, this is a DBT...
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- Feb 9
Healthy Self-Doubt
FAMILIES! If you have a loved one who needs to be right, who is intolerant of different perspectives, who is often rigid and wants to...
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- Feb 8
MYTHS About Suicide
MYTH: You CAN’T talk about it. Talking about suicide or asking someone if they feel suicidal will encourage suicide attempts. FACT:...
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- Feb 3
What makes this DBT Family Workshop so special?
A few people have asked me how my workshop differs from others out there. I love to meet informed persons who research the options that...
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- Jan 24
ESSENTIALS OF EMOTIONS
"Cheat sheets" to help identify what you are feeling! Notice the words of different intensities. Use these words! Validate yourself and...
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- Jan 24
Is your best attempt at validation getting thrown back in your face?
Maybe you are not really an emotionally connected kind of person. You have no idea what your loved-one is feeling and they don't either....
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- Jan 5
Are you feeling STRESSED?
Maybe you are more like frozen in fear, suffocating in humiliation, or exploding with rage? How can you possibly RELIEVE and even SOOTHE...
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- Dec 15, 2022
Family Resources for Talking about Suicide
When Marsha Linehan, PhD, developed Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) in the 1980s, she originally intended it to be used for treating...
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- Dec 15, 2022
But I tried to help!
Emotional Activation Escalates Invalidation Invalidation Escalates Emotional Activation When the transactional nature of invalidation and...
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- Nov 9, 2022
The Practice of Mentalizing
Inquisitive and not-knowing Presence A fundamental presence that includes empathy, genuineness, a nonjudgmental attitude, positive regard...
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- Nov 7, 2022
More about “Mentalizing”
Dogs are the second best mentalizers, right after humans! 😉 Mentalizing occurs when we are trying to make sense of behaviors. It...
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- Nov 3, 2022
Attention and Mental Health
"Few things affect our lives more than our faculty of attention. If we can't focus our attention - due to either agitation or dullness -...
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- Oct 31, 2022
What is "Mentalization?"
Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT) was developed as a treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder by Bateman and Fonagy in the U.K....
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- Oct 11, 2022
Are you "enabling" those angry verbal attacks against you?
No, I am not blaming the victim here. People are fully accountable for their own actions and anyone who screams, shouts, blames, swears,...
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- Oct 11, 2022
DBT 12-Week Family Workshops
Do you have a son or daughter or other loved one who is emotionally volatile and blaming you for all their problems? Perhaps they are...
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- Oct 3, 2022
Getting Better Rest
The importance of rest and sleep cannot be underestimated. Lack of alertness, impaired memory, increased vulnerability to emotional...
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