What was most frustrating was that it seemed like all of her greatest turning points or breakthroughs in her life were some sort of random mystical or religious experience that had nothing to do with therapy. It’s knowing that maybe I will have depression or sadness, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t pleasurable things in my life, or that it won’t end.

In Building a Life Worth Living, Marsha Linehan shares her experience of suicidal depression to help others who may be experiencing this themselves or in someone they love. Marsha has written a very powerful book, which joins the ranks of other psychologists who have recorded autobiographies of their mental agony. However, I think other aspects of this memoir could have benefitted from even a bit more development, instead of focusing on DBT so intensely. It is a story that reinforces, for me, that with effort our negative life experiences can be turned into something good even when we think it is impossible!This means you can effectively regulate intense emotions and reactions without compromising on the quality of life you wish to lead.

Es una experiencia de primera mano de una persona que ha sufrido mucho, y ha encontrado un camino para salir de su laberinto de infierno emocional. In reality, the seeds of DBT were planted in 1961," I continued, 'when, at age eighteen, I was admitted here, to the Institute of Living.I was always careful to make sure everyone's needs were met, that no one was left out of the action. If you're not interested in the scholarly progression of psychiatric study, if you're put off by discussions of treating mental illness that involve meditation and God, or if you're looking for a simple, triumphant journey without potholes, give "Building a Life Worth Living" a miss.

It was a day-­job-­and-­night-­school life again for me as I then strove to be a university undergraduate. Linehan was featured in a special issue of Time magazine, 'Great Scientists: The Geniuses and Visionaries Who Transformed Our World.The truth is that most psychotherapists of all disciplines graduate and get licensed without ever having received the kind of training and supervision that is required to produce a competent therapist. The majority of her anecdotes appeared to have zero point to them or did not relate to the rest of the chapter. She is the past-president of both the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy and of the Society of Clinical Psychology, Division 12, American Psychological Association. By age thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: She had her dream job as an award-winning radio producer at This American Life and a loving boyfriend.

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. The format is almost entirely chronological, and some of the transitions felt a little choppy for me. It's like looking at the night sky in the city, where you see points of light from planets and stars here and there, but mostly it is unbroken blackness. 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.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. 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. She was branded as the most untreatable, misunderstood patient ever to be admitted to the Institute of Living, with the hospitalisation not benefiting her at all. Very interesting and moving because the author who is a therapist suffered from a very deep depression and tried to commit suicide.