My favorite DBT dialectic? “I’m doing the best I can AND I want to be doing better.” This can apply to many situations. These two, seemingly opposing facts about the way I feel about my brother, are both true at the same time.ĭBT is comprised of many dialectics, two simultaneous yet opposing truths. I care about my brother and think he’s great, AND him being hard to reach is something I don’t like about him. I’ve been trying to reach him on the phone for weeks to ask him a simple question, and either he answers and has to go within a minute or doesn’t even pick up the phone. He’s very busy, essentially working two full time jobs right now. But even that is still kind of confusing! That’s kind of confusing, right? In simpler terms, dialectical means two opposing things being true at once. Marsha Linehan, the creator of DBT, defines dialectical as a synthesis or integration of opposites. Google and Wikipedia aren’t so helpful either each defines dialectical with other big words! When I start DBT therapy groups or DBT trainings, I like to start with the question, “What does dialectical mean?” I often hear, “a discussion between two people,” “a dialogue,” “the way people talk, like the word dialect,” and finally “maybe something related to two things?” The last guess is the closest. When I first started studying DBT in graduate school, I remember thinking, “This must be a really complicated treatment, because I don’t know what dialectical even means.” Most people have never heard the word 'dialectical' when learning of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
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