ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Theoretical extensions
chapter 5|17 pages
Assimilation of problematic voices and the historicity of signs
chapter 7|17 pages
Disturbances in the dialogical self in psychosis
part II|2 pages
Methodological innovations
chapter 9|15 pages
Innovation and ambivalence
chapter 10|18 pages
Metacognitive interpersonal therapy as a dialogical practice
part III|2 pages
Bridging cultures