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Old Jan 12, 2009, 08:34 AM
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The dialectical view assumes that clients' problems are caused by these dialectical failures.
Hmmm. And how did the "dialectical failures" get established in the mind of the sufferer?

Might it be that they were encouraged in the family of origin, or modelled there as being the way things were always done? Maybe any other approach (seeing more than one side of a question) was stigmatized?



And if that happened to be so, might the approach to changing things be more challenging?
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