Dr. Eric Bender

They love the...

I guess, schedule to it.

For me, I find I like to get at the root of things more, which the psychodynamic and psychoanalytic stuff helps me to see.

Then I can bring in elements of CBT also.

What about DBT?

DBT, dialectical behavioral therapy, is a therapy that has the most evidence for treating borderline personality disorder or borderline traits.

Borderline personality, when I first heard about it in med school, I'm like, borderline what?

They even do it, don't have something.

But the way it was originally described is borderline, meaning somebody on the border between psychotic, having a break from reality, and neurotic, using all their energy to maintain and hold onto their anxieties, try to manage their anxieties.

So borderline traits, that's best depicted most recently on television, in my opinion, by the mother in The Bear.

So Donna Merzato, played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

There's some incredible scenes in The Bear where she really shows borderline traits.

In the episode The Fishes, where she's cooking the Christmas dinner for everybody, she shows an unstable sense of self.

She shows that

She can devalue herself very quickly.

There's even some suicidal type gestures, the idea that people are abandoning her and this frantic reaction to perceived abandonment.

So DBT is used to help with those types of traits and features and personality styles.

And what happens in DBT is there's a very comprehensive team that looks after someone.

There's a 24-hour care group.

There's group therapy.