Main description:

Includes chapters from leading international figures.

Contents:

Introduction. Miguel M. Goncalves, 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. Goncalves

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. Goncalves, Antonio P. Ribeiro, Catarina Rosa, Joana Silva, Catia Braga, Carina Magalhaes, & Joao 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 Martinez & 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. Goncalves