Dialectical Behavioral Therapy was developed and created by Marsha Linehan, a current clinical psychologist who was in and out of mental hospitals as a youth and thought about ending her life on numerous occasions. 

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Determined to create a life worth living, through painstaking trial and error, she discovered skills to help manage her emotions and find stability. 

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She coined the term "radical acceptance", which posed that normal pain+acceptance equaled a life worth living while normal pain with non-acceptance equaled unbearable pain. 

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The "dialectic" of DBT stems from on one hand accepting yourself exactly the way you are while conversely desiring and wanting change. 

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The skills in DBT including mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness are effective in managing a wide array of problems, ranging from anxiety and depression to relationship issues and anger and everything in between.