The stick comes next, although the dialectical balance between the two is uncertain.

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Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and psychodramatherapy are offered, as are acupuncture and art.

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Linehan diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder, an extreme inability to regulate moods, and prescribed a type of counseling called dialectical behavior therapy.

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Then, after reading a book on dialectical materialism, Fyodorov understood that a contradiction was at work inside him, and this was why he was sometimes gripped by a dark, alien sadness.

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Obama's declaration of his support for marriage equality the day after North Carolina residents banned both same-sex marriage and civil unions in a referendum is only the latest encapsulation of the dialectical interaction of movement and countermovement: Each effort to limit marriage equality has led to a countereffort on behalf of equal rights.

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On one side many people believe that the future social dialectical barrier will be between those who know and those who do not know rather than between the rich and the poor people, and some times one has even seen science unappropriately used to give credit to something that has nothing to do with it.

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This is, after all, a country that just inaugurated an annual Hero of Atheism award. (This year's winner was Sima Nan, a 43-year-old ex-journalist who debunks the "superhuman" feats of local shamans on his TV show.) "The sincere advocacy of freedom of religious belief is based on our understanding of the dialectical materialistic theory, " says Ye Xiaowen, director of the State Council's Religious Affairs Bureau.

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