"First, “What is death?” Second, “Do individuals have a right to commit suicide; do you have that right?” And third, “Does anyone have the right to stop another person from committing suicide; do you have that right?” 咨询师需要非常清楚自己对这三个问题的答案。如果你不清楚自己在这些问题上的立场,你在面对一个suicidal client的当下是不可能马上想清楚的,然后很有可能把自己"
"Mindfulness practice is the repeated effort of bringing the mind back to awareness of the present moment; it includes the repeated effort of letting go of judgments and letting go of attachment to current thoughts, emotions, sensations, activities, events, or life situations. It is very difficult to"
"Dear Dr. O’Brien, What am I afraid of? I am afraid of never getting married, so I stay in here to give me a good reason. I m afraid of being a social oddity, so I break windows to give me a good reason for being one. I am affaid being thin wouldn't solve my problems so I stay fat to avoid finding ou"
"Dear Dr O’Brien Here goes— Two of the reasons I am unhappy are: One—I am so overweight & ugly. I used to think I’d be completely happy if I were only thin like Aline & all my friends. Now I don't know if that is true or not. The other is that I have never been very popular with boys, especially my s"
"“The suicidal person is like someone trapped in a small room with high walls that are stark white. The room has no lights or windows. The room is hot and humid, and the boiling heat of the floor of humid, and the boiling heat of the floor of hell is excruciatingly painful. The person searches for a "
""This constant disapproval, this constant pressure to be someone else—this is an example of a concept I came up with as I developed DBT: an invalidating environment and, in the extreme, a traumatic invalidating environment."
""Traumatic invalidation …… It can be an accumulation of pervasive misreading of emotions by others, such as when someone insists incorrectly that a person is angry, jealous, afraid, or lying or insists that the person has internal motives he or she doesn’t have. Trauma is most likely when these acti"