Remember this unresolved discussion from almost four months ago?
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Originally Posted by deliquesce
...devil-woman said that the therapist should call the px's bluff and ask them why they don't just kill themselves right that day.
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Originally Posted by Fool Zero
I'd love to read/hear/watch where Linehan said that and especially, in what context. So far it sounds completely at variance with what she says in her book...
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Thanks to the link Trying & Caring
just posted, I found a reposted New York Times article where an unidentified therapist (apparently
not Linehan herself, though her picture appears nearby) is quoted discussing suicide with a patient as follows:
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"I've been going through this since I was 11 years old," the young woman said, "I'm backed up against the wall. Either I need to do this therapy or I need to die."
"Well, why not die?" the therapist asked.
"Well, if it comes down to it, I will."
"Uh-huh, but why not now?"
This aggressive cross-examination is a signature technique of what has become one of the most popular new psychotherapies in a generation...
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-- "
With Toughness and Caring, a Novel Therapy Helps Tortured Souls," by Benedict Carey, reposted by TARA from The New York Times, July 13, 2004.
I suppose with a good deal of taking out of context and stretching, that quote could be turned into something like an I-dare-you. It sounds to me, though, as if the therapist is only inviting her patient to notice for herself that she does in fact also want to live.