Modifying Behaviour Therapy to Meet the Challenge of Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
The Oxford Handbook of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy November 1, 2018 Randy Wolbert
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy can be conceptualized as the transaction between behaviour therapy and Zen contemplative practice, held together with a dialectical philosophy. When first developed, mindfulness practices had not yet been incorporated into psychotherapy. Marsha Linehan chose to augment behaviour therapy with Zen practice. This chapter begins with a brief history of Zen and...