What is the DET research domain?

The DET research domain is part of the method's institutional layer. It is where its theoretical foundations, postulates, symbolic system, and scholarly materials are developed and discussed, connecting DET with professional language and research questions that can be examined.

What materials are collected in the DET research section?

The section brings together the DET concept, an interpretation of the logo as a psychosemantic model, and a publication catalogue covering articles, dissertations, conference abstracts, and reports. Detailed materials open on dedicated child pages.

How does research contribute to the development of DET?

Research helps formulate, discuss, and refine DET's concepts, postulates, and practical formats by relating the theoretical model to clinical experience and available evidence. Scientific scrutiny supports the method's development without replacing a living understanding of the person with a schema.

Research

DET Research

Research is the research domain within DET’s institutional cluster. It brings together the theoretical foundations, postulates, symbolic system, and publications that connect Dialectical Existential Therapy with scientific argumentation, professional language, and an open body of materials.

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Golden symbol of the DET research domain with a microscope on a transparent background

DET ConceptThe theoretical core: postulates, model logic, and the relationship of the psychotherapeutic framework to personal development and external supports.Open section DET LogoThe psychosemantics of the symbol: the circle of personality, shadow and light, openness to the world, and resilience in development.Open section PublicationsA catalogue of research materials: articles, dissertation work, theses, talks and individual pages.Open section

Scientific grounding

The DET research loop keeps the connection between concept, clinical experience, and scientific verifiability. It prevents Dialectical Existential Therapy from becoming a set of slogans: concepts, postulates, and practical formats must remain describable, discussable, and open to refinement.

We respect data and strive for precision, but we do not reduce the person to a scheme. Science is a support for thinking here, not a frame that cancels living experience.

Publications

The relationship between ethical representations and characterological features of personality

Колхонен А. Ю. · 2025

Dissertation for the degree of Candidate of Psychological Sciences. Saint Petersburg State University

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A dissertation on how people understand good and evil and how ethical positions relate to personality traits, including the Dark and Light Triads.

The full catalogue and new updates are in the Publications research section.

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