Shelley McMain
Shelley McMain, PhD, is head of the Borderline Personality Disorder Clinic and senior scientist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada; director of the Psychotherapy, Humanities and Psychosocial Interventions Division; associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Toronto; and president of the Transitional Board of the World Federation of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy. Dr. McMain's clinical interests include dialectical behavior therapy, borderline personality disorder, emotion regulation, and mechanisms of change. Her work has been recognized by various international professional associations, including the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders and the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Understanding Mechanisms of Change in Psychotherapies for Personality Disorders
This book presents a holistic approach to treating patients with personality disorders that seeks to inspire psychotherapists and encourage innovation.
Focusing on core mechanisms of change... (more)
Psychotherapy Essentials to Go: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation
Rigorously field-tested by on-the-ground clinicians, this guidebook provides an easy-to-use, evidence-based summary of using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) to treat emotional disorders, or... (more)