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A Podcast with Charlie Swenson – To Hell and Back

Nuggets of Gold in Piles of Sand – Episode 122

36 min • 12 augusti 2025

In this podcast, Charlie reflects on a recent consultation as a window into the way in which memory is tethered to certain moments, as an example of Linehan’s metaphor for validation as finding a nugget of gold in a pile of sand, and as a segue into the integration of DBT and depth psychology in therapy.

Nuggets of Gold in Piles of Sand – Episode 122

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