ABSTRACT
The study of the psycho-therapeutic discourse as a multi- or dia-logic system of interpretation impinges upon a central dilemma that perpetually rocks the discipline of psychology. In the 1970s several discourses about the contributions of dialectic to human development made a noticeable appearance in the psychological literature. The time has come to introduce the dia-logic conception to refer to the possible coexistence of artistic and scientific, or mystical and rational, orientations through psychotherapy. Humanistic nonmanipulative psychotherapy is a myth unless the dia-logic I-thou within and between people is formulated in terms of multiple or dual languages and modes of thought. The formulation of a dia-logic system of therapy and human development in terms of two languages or modes of thought that coexist on the intrapersonal and interpersonal levels appears possible by adopting the dynamic paradigm of contraction. The notion of dia-logic balancing may also be understood as a mechanism of "contraction".
