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Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Your Toolbox for Managing Emotions

Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, is one of the most common treatment options for certain mental health conditions. Originally used to address borderline personality disorder (BPD), now DBT is also used to treat depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bulimia, and substance addiction...

4 Myths About Borderline Personality Disorder

So you think you know about borderline personality disorder ? Think again. Many of us have seen the movie “Fatal Attraction,” where the lead female character is described as having borderline personality disorder (BPD), but the diagnosis is not that Hollywood portrayal. In fact, despite great...

How Working Improves Your Mental Health

For those who have experienced life-altering events or diagnoses, getting a job may be the last thing on their mind. They may consider it out of the question altogether. But it turns out that working has significantly more value than a paycheck alone. Karen L. Jacob, PhD , program director of McLean...

Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder in Teens

Being a teenager is difficult. Teens go through many changes, including social and educational changes and hormonal mood swings. Sometimes teens act without thinking if they will get into trouble, with out-of-character actions, thoughts, and feelings all being part of the typical teen experience...

Everything You Need To Know About Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex condition. It affects how a person feels about themselves and others. BPD is characterized by intense, unstable emotions and relationships as well as insecurity and self-doubt. BPD makes everything about a person feel unstable, ranging from moods...

A Guide to General Psychiatric Management

General psychiatric management (GPM), also known as good psychiatric management, is a treatment for borderline personality disorder (BPD). BPD is a complex condition that can make everything about a person’s life feel unstable, including their emotions, sense of self, and relationships. While BPD is...

Understanding Transference-Focused Psychotherapy

People living with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often struggle with self-image, emotional stability, and relationships with others. Transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP) treats BPD by concentrating on the relationship between the therapist and patient. Transference refers to feelings a...

Staff Profile: Jodie O’Malley, MSW, LICSW

Jodie O’Malley, LICSW, is a senior clinical team manager and individual and group psychotherapist at McLean Hospital. Drawing from over two decades of experience, Ms. O’Malley utilizes evidenced-based psychotherapies, including acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy...

Staff Profile: Brian W. Boyle, MD

Brian W. Boyle, MD, is a staff psychiatrist at McLean Hospital’s Psychiatric Neurotherapeutics Program, where he cares for patients with treatment-resistant depression using ketamine and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). He is interested in the treatment of patients who struggle with both mood and...

Staff Profile: Anna Precht, PsyD

Anna Precht, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist and a senior clinical consultant at McLean’s Arlington School. She has extensive experience treating adults and adolescents using DBT in individual, group, and milieu modalities. Previously at McLean, she worked closely with colleagues to develop and...

Staff Profile: George W. Smith, LICSW

George W. Smith, LICSW, graduated from Smith College School for Social Work in 1976 and has spent his entire career at McLean. He did 14 years of inpatient work, primarily focused on family therapy. In 1990, he became the program director of McLean’s first residential program for personality...

Staff Profile: Julia Lustick, MD

Julia Lustick, MD is a staff psychiatrist on the Short Term Unit and in the Gunderson Outpatient Program for patients with borderline personality disorder and other severe personality disorders. Dr. Lustick is psychodynamically oriented and works with individuals, couples, groups, and families. She...

Staff Profile: Leila Guller, PhD

Leila Guller, PhD, is a therapist at the 3East Residential Programs. Dr. Guller’s clinical work is primarily with young people struggling with borderline personality disorder and risky behaviors. Her research background is in adolescent addictive behaviors. Dr. Guller completed her graduate training...

Staff Profile: Joan Wheelis, MD

Joan Wheelis MD, is a senior consultant at the Gunderson Residence and the Gunderson Outpatient Program. An assistant professor of psychiatry, part-time, at Harvard Medical School and on the faculty of the combined MGH/McLean Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, she is a training and...

Staff Profile: Mary C. Zanarini, EdD

Mary C. Zanarini, EdD, began her career studying the phenomenology and etiology of borderline personality disorder (BPD), finding that it is a valid psychiatric disorder that has a clear-cut clinical presentation, can be delimited from other near-neighbor disorders, runs in families, and has a...

Staff Profile: D. Bradford Reich, MD

D. Bradford Reich, MD, has been an attending psychiatrist at McLean Hospital since 1990. Working as an inpatient attending from 1990-2007, he had positions in the psychotic disorders and dissociative disorders and trauma programs. Between 2010 and 2012, he served as an attending psychiatrist at the...

Staff Profile: Munya Hayek, MD

Munya Hayek, MD, is triple board-certified in child and adolescent psychiatry, adult psychiatry, and pediatrics. She is the associate medical director of the Belmont Adolescent Partial Hospital Program at McLean Hospital and serves as associate program director of the MGH/McLean Child and Adolescent...

Staff Profile: Jason G. Jones, MD

Jason G. Jones, MD, is a psychiatrist at the Gunderson Outpatient Program and the Clinical Evaluation Center at McLean Hospital. He specializes in psychodynamic individual and family therapy with patients with personality disorders. He is a graduate of Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute’s...

Staff Profile: Mariola Magovcevic, PhD

Mariola Magovcevic, PhD, earned her bachelor of arts in psychology from Clark University, her master of science in counseling psychology from Northeastern University, and her doctorate in clinical psychology from Clark University. She completed both her pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training at...

Staff Profile: Elizabeth A. Bailey, PsyD

Elizabeth A. Bailey, PsyD, is a staff psychologist at McLean’s Child and Adolescent OCD Institute. She specializes in the use of evidence-based treatments, including dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), to treat a variety of clinical presentations. Dr. Bailey has...