Stage one
The Human, Being a Person
I use words to describe myself and my experience. A word is a symbol pointing to something — it is not the thing itself. What I say about myself is not the whole of who I am.
Clinical background
The function of Diction Resolution Therapy (DRT), developed by Andrew Dettman, is healing language. DICTION gives access to my inner dictionary: a ‘re-source’ of words, experience and knowledge, both in parts of my personality and in my integrated being as a whole person.
The DICTION wheel grew out of many years of Dettman’s direct therapeutic practice with people recovering from addiction. He reports repeated clinical verification within his own practice. This is a practical therapeutic instrument, not merely a theory; that account does not establish independent trial evidence or universal scientific validation.