Marsha Linehan

Marsha Linehan is a professor of psychology, adjunct professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics. Linehan’s primary research is in the application of behavioral models to suicidal behaviors, drug abuse, and borderline personality disorder. She is the developer of Dialectical Behavior Therapy, 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. Marsha is founder of Behavioral Tech LLC, a behavioral technology transfer group, and Behavioral Tech Research, Inc., a company that develops innovative online and mobile technologies to disseminate science-based behavioral treatments for mental disorders.