Marsha Linehan, PhD

Marsha Linehan, PhD, is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Director Emeritus of Behavior Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington, a consortium of research projects developing new treatments and evaluating their efficacy for severely disordered and multi-diagnostic and suicidal populations. Her primary research gas been in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. Before retiring in 2019, she worked to develop effective models for transferring science-based treatments to the clinical community.

She is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), a treatment originally developed for the treatment of suicidal behaviors and since expanded to treatment of borderline personality disorder and other severe and complex mental disorders, particularly those that involve serious emotion dysregulation.