She was referred to me for Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) in a last-ditch attempt to change her destiny, although, at best, she was ambivalent about the prospect of the treatment helping her. Despite many treatment attempts over the last few years, she was not improving.

P meets criteria for borderline personality disorder and was experiencing frequent, uncontrollable bouts of severe and dangerous self-harm. )Linehan 2020)Īt the time, P, a young 28-year old woman, and I were in the middle of the most difficult and demanding psychological treatment that I have ever known. Here he writes about the impact of reading Marsha Linehan’s memoir Building a Life Worth Living during lockdown.ĭuring the first wave of the novel coronavirus lockdown, I escaped the days of fear and uncertainty by reading, American psychologist and author, Marsha Linehan’s book, B uilding a L ife W orth L iving. He is a member of the Society for DBT in the UK and Ireland and has a long association with BIDBT having travelled to the UK specifically to attend a number of our workshops and also sending his team for Intensive Training. Yoray is Founder and head of the Israeli forum for promotion, development, and implementation of DBT in public health services.

The team are keen to deliver DBT as adherently as possible and are pleased to be part of the wider DBT community represented by both BIDBT and SfDBT. The team of 7 therapists, including a psychiatrist, social workers and psychologists, are all solo independent practitioners who come together to deliver DBT. Currently he is a DBT Practitioner and team leader of the Ami Team practising in and around Tel Aviv Israel. He has been a military psychologist and the head of a public mental health unit. He graduated with a master’s degree in psychology from Bar Ilan University. Yoray Barak is a Clinical Psychologist and Supervisor trained and living in Israel.

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