Posted by Penny on October 3, 2003, at 13:47:56
In reply to Re: DBT - Dinah? Others? » Penny, posted by Dinah on October 3, 2003, at 10:09:58
Yes, I don't really want her to have to take a hard-line stance with me. Not that we're 'friends' or that we ever will or should be, but there is the whole 'mother'-like feeling that I think would be ruined if she was the one really enforcing my compliance with the DBT rules.
At the same time, I was just reading an article today by Marsha Linehan (from 1999 - Journal of Clinical Psychology) about DBT and she was using case examples, and one of the things she said was that most of the patients she has done DBT with (mostly BPs, I guess) do things like purposefully not complying with treatment assignments, threatening to SI, threatening suicide. I don't really have a problem with those things - I do have a problem with the anger at myself, berating myself, can connect to the invalidating experiences from childhood thing, and so on.
But, I can certainly see how some of the treatment goals - self-soothing, for example - could be very helpful to me. The university library here has two copies of Linehan's book and one copy of the manual, but the manual is checked out along with one of the books. I'd like to look more at them before buying or committing to any of this. I'm wondering if, by some slim chance, Barnes & Noble or Border's here would carry them, so I could at least take a look.
Funny - I don't know what it is about this that makes me uncomfortable. I guess it's that the formality of committing to a DBT program removes some of the freedom I have right now in my therapy. Perhaps I am too comfortable in therapy right now...hmmm...
Thanks.
P
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