ABSTRACT
Perhaps few therapies emphasize integration so explicitly on as many disparate levels as DBT. The treatment is integrative in the “dialectical/developmental” sense of the word (Stricker & Gold, 1993), meaning that it emphasizes the “open-ended dialogical process in which differences are examined and novel integrations are welcomed” (p. 7). Thus, while at any given moment DBT constitutes a single, unified psychotherapy, it also changes continuously as new developments become incorporated rather than avoided, rather like a client effectively participating in therapy.
