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The shift in perspective-taking is a powerful way that DBT uses to help people transform the way they see something. This can happen in various ways:

 If a person feels that they have screwed up and are unlovable, the therapist might ask them what they imagine their best friend would say.

 A person may reflect on whether the way they are treating themselves is consistent with their wise mind. Wise mind is the dialectical synthesis of rational mind and emotion mind — where these two states of mind integrate into a single state that leads to a more intuitive, values-based, and holistic course of action.

 In some sessions, therapists might take a more concrete approach to perspective-taking by switching seats with their patient, so that the patient literally has a different point of view.

 Other techniques go beyond simply imagining another person’s perspective by imagining what a person’s younger self would say about a certain situation, or what their future self would say about their current actions.

The following sections dig deeper into different methods of seeing different perspectives.