Handbook of Dialogical Self Theory and Psychotherapy

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.

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.

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