This is a book about knowledge acquisition unfolding over an individual'slifespan, with immediate effects on how the individual collaborates withothers. Pivotal in this unfolding is the role of dialectic that moves an individual'sthinking from objectifying, logical understanding, or identity thinking (Adorno1999), to a more holistic and dynamic, transformational world view. The bookfocuses on the nature of dialectical movements-in-thought, made traceable bythe Dialectic Thought Form Framework