Sorry to cut & paste, but I had never heard of the "Dialectical School", so I'm just pasting this from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry: (I wonder if it's just a coincidence that it was originally posted on Hegel's birthday!) Dialectical School First published Fri Aug 27, ...

I was surprised to discover how much discussion there was of dialectics in psychology before Marsha Linehan's Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). In fact, she was the one I learned this from in her book Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder (1993), the classic text of D...

Marsha Linehan's original book about Dialectical Behavior Therapy is titled Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder . I read in her recent memoir, Building a Life Worth Living , that the publisher didn't want the word "dialectical" in the title (because it would b...

Is dialectic something acquired or lost? A thought occurred to me today: Is the ability to think dialectically something we gain or lose? I guess this would be a question for cultural anthropologists and/or developmental psychologists, but I was wondering if it were possible that negative or contra...

I was surprised to find this reference to Hegel's dialectic in Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex : "Certain passages where Hegel's dialectic describes the relationship of master to slave would apply far better to the relationship of man to woman." ( The Second Sex , Borde/Malovany-Chevallier...