Posted by alexandra_k on July 4, 2005, at 20:37:58
In reply to Re: I'd be keen, posted by alexandra_k on July 4, 2005, at 20:32:15
Linehan talks a lot about dialectics in the main training manual.
She talks about how therapy is like the client being on one end of a teeter totter (by which I think she means see saw) and the therapist being at the other. Therapy is the dynamic of trying to shift the client to move up the pole a little bit towards the centre. Then the therapist can move there a little bit and the idea is for both to get to the middle and 'transcend' the problem. But the danger is that if the therapist isn't careful the client will jump back towards their pole. And the see saw isn't just a see saw... It is a pole over the grand canyon and there can be real harm if the client falls off backwards.
He. I liked that.
It is about there being one POV on the one hand and the other POV on the other hand. And the danger is in the swinging between them as though one must be right and the other wrong and the difficulty is in deciding which is right and which is wrong.
But... There is a grain of truth in most things and so you need to redescribe the positions in such a way that the truth in both is adequately captured and the polarisation just fades away.
It is really hard to explain and to grasp.
But it is absolutely brilliant when it is done well.
Absolutely brilliant :-)
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