Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dialogical self as a landscape of mind populated by a society of i-positions / Agnieszka Konopka, Hubert Hermans & Miguel M. Gonçalves -- Gestalt therapy, dialogical self theory and the "empty chair" / Frank-M. Staemmler -- EFT emotion focused therapy: embodied dialogue between parts of the self / William J. Whelton & Robert Elliott -- Assimilation of problematic voices and the historicity of signs: how culture enters psychotherapy / William B. Stiles -- I-positions and the unconscious / John Rowan -- Disturbances in the dialogical self in psychosis: contributions from the study of metacognitive disturbances / Paul H. Lysaker, Jay Hamm, Bethany L. Leonhardt & John T. Lysaker -- Promoting healing dialogues in grief therapy / Robert Neimeyer & Agnieszka Konopka -- Innovation and ambivalence: a narrative-dialogical perspective on therapeutic change / Miguel M. Gonçalves, António P. Ribeiro, Catarina Rosa, Joana Silva, Cátia Braga, Carina Magalhães, & João Tiago Oliveira -- Metacognitive interpersonal therapy as a dialogical practice: experiential work with personality disorders / Giancarlo Dimaggio, Paolo Ottavi, Raffaele Popolo & Giampaolo Salvatore -- Developing a dialogical approach to analysing psychotherapy / Eugenie Georgaca & Evrinomy Avdi -- From dissociation to dialogical reorganization of subjectivity in psychotherapy / Claudio Martínez & Alemka Tomicic -- Compositionwork: working with the dialogical self in psychotherapy / Agnieszka Konopka & Wim van Beers -- On the microstructure of self-experience in the psychotherapeutic dialogue / Masayoshi Morioka -- North american indigenous concepts of the dialogical self / Lewis Mehl-Madrona & Barbara Mainguy -- Dialogicality de-reifies self: how dialogical self theory clarifies a new therapeutic voice / Michelle H. Mamberg & Donald McCown.

"In the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy: Bridging Psychotherapeutic and Cultural Traditions, the editors bring together a wide variety of therapeutic approaches in order to demonstrate how Dialogical Self Theory functions as a bridging framework crossing boundaries between countries and cultures. The basic message is to facilitate a theory-informed dialogue between different perspectives: cognitive therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, gestalt therapy, emotion-focused therapy, Eastern, Indian-American and transpersonal approaches. The chapters present the theoretical notions, qualitative methods, and practical implications of the presented projects with attention to their common dialogical foundation. With its bridging approach and interdisciplinary aims, the Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy will be essential reading for psychotherapists and counselors in practice and training and for those who are interested in the common factors underlying a wide variety of psychotherapeutic schools and traditions"-- Provided by publisher.

College of Education Graduate Studies Master of Arts in Education major in Guidance and Counseling

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