The dialogical self in psychotherapy / edited by Hubert J.M. Hermans and Giancarlo Dimaggio.

Paperback reprint. Originally published 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy: Introduction / Hubert J.M. Hermans and Giancarlo Dimaggio -- Part 1. General theory : -- 1. The Dialogical Self : Between Exchange and Power / Hubert J.M. Hermans -- 2. Some considerations about the development of the dialogical self / Marie-Cecile Bertau -- 3. Toward a Neuropsychological Model of Internal Dialogue : Implications for Theory and Clinical Practice / Marc D. Lewis and Rebecca Todd -- 4. Encountering self-otherness : "I-I" and "I-Me" modes of self-relating / Mick Cooper -- Part 2. Theory and Clinical practice : -- 5. Self-multiplicity and Narrative Expression in Psychotherapy / Lynne Angus and John John McLeod -- 6. Encounters Between Internal Voices Generate Emotion : An Elaboration of the Assimilation Model / William B. Stiles [and others] -- 7. From discord to dialogue : Internal voices and the reorganization of the self in Process-Experiential therapy / William J. Whelton and Leslie S. Greenberg -- 8. The dialogical construction and reconstruction of a personal position repertoire / Hubert Hermans & Els Hermans-Jansen -- 9. Standing in the spaces : The multiplicity of self and the psychoanalytic relationship / Philip Bromberg -- 10. The psychodramatic "Social Atom Method" with children : A developing dialogical self in dialectic action / Leni M.F. Verhofstadt-Deneve [and others] -- Part 3. Reconstructing dialogical processes in severely affected patients : -- 11. Performing the Self : Therapeutic Enactment and the Narrative Integration of Traumatic Loss / Robert A. Neimeyer and Marla J. Arvay -- 12. Strategies for the treatment of dialogical dysfunctions / Giancarlo Dimaggio, Giampaolo Salvatore and Dario Catania -- 13. Dialogical Transformation in the Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia / Paul H. Lysaker and John T. Lysaker -- 14. A dialogical approach to patients with severe personality disorders / Antonio Semerari [and others] -- Part 4. Methodological Issues in the psychotherapeutic process : -- 15. Hearing Voices : Methodological Issues in Measuring Internal Multiplicity / Katerine Osatuke [and others] -- 16. Dialogical Sequence Analysis / Mikael Leiman.

"How can a theory of the self be used to understand the psychotherapeutic process? The basic assumption of the 'dialogical self' is that there is no centralised 'headquarter' in the mind, but that the internal self is made up of a number of different 'characters'. Interpersonal relationships, from infancy onwards, become internalised - these internalised relationships then influence relationships during life. The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy is divided into four clear and accessible sections, which explore: theoretical and historical assumptions of the dialogical self from different angles: psychological, developmental and neurobiological ;the relationships between Dialogical Self Therapy and the authors' own theoretical perspectives ;treatment of clients suffering from severe disorders ;method and research. The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy gathers together psychotherapists from divergent origins to explore current thinking in the field: cognitive, constructivist, process-experiential, narrative, psychodynamic, psychodramatic, humanistic, and cognitive analytic. This innovative book brings together inter- and intra-subjective dialogue and clearly demonstrates how they are incorporated into the therapeutic process."--Publisher's website.