Responses to Dialectics *Cyclic alternation - Choosing different poles for different times. Being close when young and more distant with age, for example.
*Segmentation- Choosing different poles for different contexts. Being close at home and more distant at work, for example.
*Selection- Choosing one pole and acting as though the other does not exist. Being extremely close to family, for example.
*Integration- Synthesizing the oppositions in dialectic tensions: composed of three substrategies.
*Neutralizing- A sub-strategy of integration; that involves choosing a compromise between the opposition. Being moderately close, for example.
* Disqualifying- A strategy of integration; that involves exempting certain issues from the general pattern. Deciding to be open on all topics except sex, for example.
*Reframing- A substrategy of integration; that involves transforming the oppositions so they no longer appear to oppose one another. Deciding the closeness can only be achieved if there's a little distance too, for example.