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#68. This Therapy Teaches You How To Manipulate
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- May 10, 2026
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Summary
At first, Dialectical Behavioural Therapy sounds like good therapy: calm tone, validation, "skills," the language of care. But if you look closely, something very different is happening. In this video, I break down a real clip of a DBT therapist and show how what is presented as "help" can, in practice, reinforce the very behaviors it claims to treat. We'll go beyond the surface, beyond self-report, beyond symptom reduction and look at what these interventions actually do in real relationships. Because the question isn't whether DBT reduces self-harm in the short term. It does. The real question is: what is it training instead? ------- Want to listen ad-free? Head over to the Psychobabble Substack and subscribe to receive the episodes ad-free straight to your email: https://substack.com/@psychobabblewithspier --------