  You can feel like a mental patient, but that doesn't mean you have to act like one - Marsha Linehan This statement is from an article by Benedict Carey which appeared in the July 13, 2004 issue of New York Times. In it, Carey outlines the principles of urlLink DBT , including an extraordinary description of the Eastern philosophical roots of distress tolerance: One thing patients learn very early, for instance, is to notice when their emotions begin to stir, allow themselves to feel the storm whip up, then let it pass - all without doing anything.
This Zen-like self-observation, called mindfulness, is an exercise not in avoidance but in feeling and enduring emotional pain. OK, fine - Behavioralism is so urlLink 1950's . But who would have guessed that an integration of Western behavioralist philosophy (well, actually, the mind-experiments developed to debunk behavioralism) and millenia-old Eastern approaches could have resulted in such a powerful and practical form of therapy? Linehan is a hero to me! Hip Hip Hurray, Marsha Linehan!!!! Of course I am referring only to non-psychotic disorders here. 
