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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456715203321

Autore

Pollard Rachel (Psychotherapist)

Titolo

Dialogue and desire : Mikhail Bakhtin and the linguistic turn in psychotherapy / / Rachel Pollard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-89846-0

0-429-47369-9

1-283-07066-9

9786613070661

1-84940-656-1

Edizione

[1st]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

UKCP Karnac series

Disciplina

616.8914

616.8914 22

Soggetti

Psychotherapy and literature

Dialogism (Literary analysis)

Literature - Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Who was Mikhail Bakhtin?; CHAPTER TWO: Bakhtin, Dialogism, and European Philosophy; CHAPTER THREE: Bakhtin, the Dialogical Self and Dialogical Psychotherapy; CHAPTER FOUR: Some Limitations of Dialogism as a Model for Psychotherapy; CHAPTER FIVE: Interdividual Psychology and the Dialogical Self; CHAPTER SIX: Towards a Further Integration of Interdividual Psychology and Dialogical Consciousness via Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Linguistics; CHAPTER SEVEN: Bakhtin's Ethics and Psychotherapy

CHAPTER EIGHT: Towards a Bakhtinian Practice of PsychotherapyBIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher and cultural critic, was one of the pioneers of the 'linguistic turn' in philosophy and is now widely associated with the concept of the dialogical self and dialogical



psychotherapy. However, whilst dialogism is the concept for which Bakhtin is most well known in psychotherapy, it is, in isolation, open to a wide range of interpretations that can be claimed by diverse and conflicting ideological positions. The radical contribution that a more inclusive reading of Bakhtin could bring to psychotherapy only becomes apparent when dialogism is understood in