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Summary: The book all people with BPD and their treaters should read
Review: OK, so I read The Siren's Dance: My marriage to a Borderline, about a doc who has a BPD wife and he gets no therapy, nor does she, or if so, not good therapy. Guess what? The marriage DOES NOT WORK. In my situation, I was quite hopeless, because my wife had tried all types of medications, and therapy. Little worked until she started DBT, in individual work and in group. I also started therapy. Our marriage will survive, and my kids are more at ease. My wife's therapist says this is the book to use. It helped us for sure.
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Summary: leaves out the men who have BPD
Review: Please update this excellent book! This version is strongly oriented toward women--uses "she" and "her" exclusively in the text and exercises. Outdated, hard to read fonts. Needless technical words ("labile") in handouts meant for laypeople. Needs cultural updating--recommends listening to "I Am Woman" (70's era women's lib song) to feel better. What about the men who have BPD? And the gay men who have BPD? How about some Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand songs at least?
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Summary: I would change the title
Review: Some of the cognitive behavioral techniques taught in this book-yo be used in both groups and individual therapy, are extremly useful and practical. I don't like the fact that DBT therapy is primarily seen as treatment for borderlines, because I have had people in my groups with multiple disorders and respond very well to DBT (ie PTSD, anger management), and the main complaint is that they feel when they puchace the book, they are being labled into one catagory, rather than subscribing to one type of treatment (DBT). Having "BPD" still has a stigma associated with it, I don't care what anyone says, but no one really knows what DBT is in the regular community. So I think the book should be called "Skills training in DBT Therapy"--It doesn't make people assume you have a specific diagnosis. My second issue with the book is that some of excercises are pretty corney--The point of the excercise are important and very useful, but the examples...I'm not quite what age group they are geard for since I've used them with both young and older group members. If anything, they have created a bit of humor, but they are not realistic and don't apply to everyday life. I continue to use the book, with modifications, and take the emphasis of the BPD and focus more on learning the skills
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Summary: dbt-skills training
Review: this book has been a tremendous help to me...i am currently in a BPD-DBT group that meets once a week for 2 hours....i have completed the course 4 times...and continue to do so, as i learn new things from the workbook each time....for myself, the distress tolerence part has been the most helpful to me.....learning how to cope, self-soothe...and distract are all an intregal part of the skills learned from this book
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Summary: This book is an invaluable aid in Treatment
Review: This book is designed for use in skill training groups for BPD. The author offers advice on adapting it to be used in individual therapy however. Linehan is forging a place in the mental health field as the foremost clinican in dealing with BPD. The reader is immediately aware of the extensive amount of research that went into this workbook. The author is not writing about opinion, she is writing about the results of years of extensively scrutinzing the work of herself and others. In my practice I have found that the use of the book, especially the handouts in the back of the book, could be in nearly ever session I ever have with someone battling with Borderline Personality. After applying the ideas in this book I found that BPD was not the same beast in treating than in the past.
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Summary: not for the BPD sufferer
Review: This book is more a teaching tool for therapists. I find the information to be too simplified for a deeply rooted disease like BPD. Sure face your fears, but suggesting "go to the store and buy an item worth less than 50 cents with a 5 dollar bill". What does that cure? We are not children. Treat us like adults. Im keeping the book only to show friends what sort of a joke these treatments are.
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Summary: empowering
Review: This is a great book, useful for everybody and not just people with BPD. I have used the concepts numerous times with my clients and I have used them myself.
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Summary: Not only for Borderline Personality Disorders
Review: This is new for me to write a reveiw. I first obtained this book in 1997. I received two long term therapy sessions and one short term. These skills were a magor factor of me getting thru some horribles times for the next 3 years. This book should be listed as a skills manual not only for Borderline but different mental disorders including all types of addiction.I highly recommend this theory to be taught in more areas than now being taught. I have been almost without any symtoms of Borderline and many other symtoms. Thanks to this manual. Marsha Lineham needs to be honored. Thanks for all the help.
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Summary: Highly helpful for high functioning, motivated borderlines
Review: This manual is highly effective for treating higher intellectually functioning and reasonably motivated borderlines. The handouts are especially helpful and they help to present the treatment in methods presentable to many clients (although I have found some borderlines become overly dependent on the handouts and conversely develop compulsions and obsessions centered around their DBT handouts and journals). I work in a residential treatment facility for SPMI (all clients also have at least one Axis I diagnosis), and most of our clients have too low intellectual functioning to grasp many of the DBT concepts. I especially enjoy the Zen focus of Linehan's DBT.
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