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List of 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
About the author
Agnieszka Konopka holds PhD in the psychology of emotions, is a practicing coach and therapist and author of a contemplative art-therapy/coaching method ‘Compositionwork’.
Hubert J. M. Hermans is an emeritus professor of psychology at the Radboud University, The Netherlands, and creator of Dialogical Self Theory.
Miguel M. Gonçalves is professor at the School of Psychology, University of Minho, Portugal. His main interests are research and clinical practice in dialogical and narrative perspectives.
Summary
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.
