Mediation is a key notion in dialectical approaches to understanding consciousness, thinking, and thought. However, the scholarly literature is replete with uses of the notion that are inconsistent with the dialectical framework within it, which has the specific function to articulate and explain the unit of a phenomenon and the corresponding unit of scientific analysis. The purpose of this pap...

In this paper we present a prototype of a framework called dalek (DiALectical Explanation in Knowledge-bases). This framework implements dialectical approaches to explain query answers in inconsistent knowledge bases. The motivation behind the prototype is as follows: given an inconsistent knowledge base represented within Datalog±, a semantics for handling inconsistency and a query Q, the goal...

Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) was born out of necessity to help suicidal individual ssuffering from severe emotion dysregulation. DBT evolved into a comprehensive, modular and hierarchical treatment consisting of a numerous treatment modes (i.e., individual psychotherapy, group skills training, out-of-session coaching, and a clinician consultation team). DBT is an intensely studied treatme...

Louis Dupré’s death marks the passing of a philosopher who made profound contribution to study Marx, Hegel, and wider tradition, needs be reread today. This memoriam acknowledges his importance through placing him in conversation with great Marxist humanist Raya Dunayevskaya.

It is known that patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) show attention deficits and impulsivity. The main aim of this study was to explore the effects of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy-Mindfulness training (DBT-M), used as an adjunct to general psychiatric management (GPM), on attention variables in patients diagnosed with BPD. A second objective was to assess the relation of mindf...

Finding more effective treatments for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is important to lessen the suffering, stigma, and heavy use on the mental health system. Art Therapy may help with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder with Borderline Personality Disorder according to current trends and neurobiological findings on how the trauma response works in the...

The following article reviews literature pertaining to the association between child maltreatment and self-injury and the ways it varies according to maltreatment type. Research supporting various mediators of the relations between different maltreatment types and self-injury is summarized. Informing mediator models, dominant theories of functionality, particularly affect regulation theories, a...

Skills training is a crucial mode of treatment in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT; Linehan, 1993b), yet a psychometrically sound measure of DBT skills use does not exist. We adapted the Revised Ways of Coping Checklist (RWCCL; Vitaliano, Russo, Carr, Maiuro, & Becker, 1985) to create the DBT Ways of Coping Checklist (DBT-WCCL). Using factor analysis procedures, two subscales emerged: one as...