Full Description
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 counsellors in practice and training and for those who are interested in the common factors underlying a wide variety of psychotherapeutic schools and traditions.
Contents
Introduction. Miguel M. Gonçalves, Agnieszka Konopka & Hubert J.M. Hermans
Part I.Theoretical Extensions
Chapter 2. The dialogical self as a landscape of mind populated by a society of I-positions.
Agnieszka Konopka, Hubert J.M. Hermans & Miguel M. Gonçalves
Chapter 3. Gestalt therapy, Dialogical Self Theory and the "empty chair".
Frank-M. Staemmler
Chapter 4. Emotion-focused therapy: Embodied dialogue between parts of the self.
William J. Whelton & Robert Elliott
Chapter 5. Assimilation of problematic voices and the historicity of signs: How culture enters psychotherapy.
William B. Stiles
Chapter 6. I-positions and the unconscious.
John Rowan
Chapter 7. Disturbances in the dialogical self in psychosis: Contributions from the study of metacognitive disturbances.
Paul H. Lysaker, Jay A. Hamm, Bethany L. Leonhardt, and John T. Lysaker
Part II. Methodological Innovations
Chapter 8. The dialogical self in grief therapy: Reconstructing identity in the wake of loss.
Robert A. Neimeyer & Agnieszka Konopka
Chapter 9. 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
Chapter 10. Metacognitive interpersonal therapy as a dialogical practice: Experiential work with personality disorders.
Giancarlo Dimaggio, Paolo Ottavi, Raffaele Popolo & Giampaolo Salvatore
Chapter 11. Developing a dialogical approach to analysing psychotherapy
Eugenie Georgaca & Evrinomy Avdi
Chapter 12. From dissociation to dialogical reorganization of subjectivity in psychotherapy.
Claudio Martínez & Alemka Tomicic
Part III. Bridging cultures
Chapter 13. Compositionwork: Working with the dialogical self in psychotherapy. Agnieszka Konopka & Wim van Beers
Chapter 14. On the constitution of self-experience in the psychotherapeutic dialogue.
Masayoshi Morioka
Chapter 15. North American indigenous concepts of the dialogical self.
Lewis Mehl-Madrona & Barbara Mainguy
Chapter 16. Mindfulness-based interventions de-reify self: DST clarifies a new therapeutic voice.
Michelle H. Mamberg & Donald McCown
Chapter 17. Epilogue: Looking back and forward.
Hubert Hermans, Agnieszka Konopka & Miguel M. Gonçalves
