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Volume 6 Number 1
Spring 2012
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Carnal Self Expanding the Dialogical Self (Commentary) Rose Traversa Universitá degli Studi 'Aldo Moro' di Bari, Italy |
pp. 185-199 |
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ABSTRACT. Dialogical
theory is a helpful frame of reference for
psychotherapy research, which
provides a perspective for the study of
psychotherapy process in terms of
meaning construction and exchange. This paper will
firstly review the basic
features of the dialogical approach to the theory
of Self and of the process of
psychotherapy, as taken into account in the papers
by Avdi (2012), Gonçalves
and Ribeiro (2012), Martínez, Tomicic and
Medina (2012), and Leiman (2012). On
the whole, the authors use the term “dialogical”
with reference to a general
theory of therapeutic change. The implications of
such an use of the dialogical
concept will be discussed, with special focus on
how the relationship between
intrapsychic and intersubjective dimensions are
taken into account, both at the
levels of theory and methodology of analysis of
the psychotherapy process. |
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