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" freedom to offer guidance, something that later bureaucratic rules would make very difficult. “So, despite the conclusion that this application wasn’t going to fly, we thought Marsha had a lot of talent,” says Barry, “and we decided to work with her.” A colleague of Barry’s, who was not directly involved in my grant proposal, recalls, “We thought Marsha was very courageous working with this population, because most therapists wanted to avoid them if at all possible.” Over the next "
― Marsha M. Linehan , Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir
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" me a site visit in Seattle. Barry remembers the visit. “The committee were Hans Strupp, from Vanderbilt, who was one of the premier researchers from the psychoanalytic point of view, and Maria Kovacs, a child behavior therapist at University of Pittsburgh, very prominent.” These visitations can be quite intimidating, especially with scholars of that caliber. And for me, this was a big one. I was so nervous that I dropped a pot of coffee in my office. It went everywhere, a terrible mess. Did they want me to make another pot? I asked sheepishly. No, they did not! It was “Let’s get on with business here.” They discussed whether "
― Marsha M. Linehan , Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir