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Volume 3 Number 1
Fall 2008
| Voices of the
Self as
Therapeutic Resources (Commentary on Morioka) Maria Elisa Molina Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile Maria Teresa del Río Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile |
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131-142 |
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ABSTRACT Therapy can be considered as a dialogue
in which an ongoing process is portrayed between I-positions of
therapist and
client displayed at a certain moment. This dialogue can be analyzed
focusing on
the simultaneity of I- positions
that participate and focusing on sequential presentation of I-positions
and its
evolving therapeutic exchange. In
an attempt to elaborate on some concepts presented by Masayoshi Morioka
(2008),
this commentary reflects on psychotherapy and the role of the
psychotherapist
from a sociogenetic perspective. A proposal of what should be the basic
features of a dialogical therapy is offered. Therapy is intended to
stress on
temporal dimension as reconstructive experiencing for both therapist
and client
in which semiotic mediation is at the core of the processing
phenomenon. From a
dialogical approach therapist shifts self-positions and provokes
dynamics of
tension, ambivalence and distancing. |
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Keywords: I-positions, tension, dialogical
therapy |
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