How Delivering DBT to a High-risk Population Made me a Better Person By Randy Flanery, PhD Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment for people with powerful urges to harm themselves and in doing so, DBT confronts the fundamental human question of why keep living. Albert Camus, twentieth century existentialist philosopher, in the The Myth of Sisyphus, declares: [...]

A Ulysses Pact for OCD: Staying Committed to your Values Amid Second Thoughts and Difficult EmotionsLane Brooke Fahy, PsyDNeuroscience shows us that we make decisions based on both emotional and logical reasoning, and this is a good thing.1 We make better decisions this way.  The problem in obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is that you, the sufferer, rely too much on [...]

Clinicians often use analogies, metaphors, thought experiments, and humor in strategic ways to aid in facilitating therapeutic change. I would like to share with you a simple analogy I often use with individuals and families. The analogy encapsulates some of the principles that you have already been teaching your patients. They are principles that patients regularly forget to use [...]