by Kevin Dawkins | Mar 30, 2017
Much more attention has been paid to Borderline Personality Disorder over the past 20 years than ever before. The watershed moment came in 1993 with the publication of Marsha Linehan’s books and research papers detailing her innovative treatment for BPD, Dialectical...
by BPD News | Dec 15, 2016
Marsha Linehan, director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington was selected for the 2017 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Dr. Linehan won the award for her development of Dialectical Behavior Therapy...
by Kevin Dawkins | Oct 27, 2015
Several years ago I attended an annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in New York. I was meeting with Marsha Linehan to have lunch and to invite her to participate in a project of ours that had just been funded by the National Institute of Mental...
by Kevin Dawkins | Sep 30, 2015
The results of a research study conducted in Israel indicate that mental health providers’ attitudes towards people with Borderline Personality Disorder may be shaped by their own fears, particularly about death and suicide. It seems that preoccupation about death,...
by Kevin Dawkins | Jul 6, 2015
Today, July 6th, is the opening day of the 2015 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) National Convention in San Francisco, California. At 11 AM (PST) Dr. Marsha Linehan will be giving a keynote presentation on Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and the...
