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Showing papers by "João Salgado published in 2011"


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TL;DR: Results suggest that new self-narratives may develop through the elaboration of protonarratives present in IMs, yielding an organizing framework that is more flexible than the problematic self-Narrative.
Abstract: This study aims to further the understanding of how innovative moments (IMs), which are exceptions to a client's problematic self-narrative in the therapy dialogue, progress to the construction of a new self-narrative, leading to successful psychotherapy. The authors' research strategy involved tracking IMs, and the themes expressed therein (or protonarratives), and analysing the dynamic relation between IMs and protonarratives within and across sessions using state space grids in a good-outcome case of constructivist psychotherapy. The concept of protonarrative helped explain how IMs transform a problematic self-narrative into a new, more flexible, self-narrative. The increased flexibility of the new self-narrative was manifested as an increase in the diversity of IM types and of protonarratives. Results suggest that new self-narratives may develop through the elaboration of protonarratives present in IMs, yielding an organizing framework that is more flexible than the problematic self-narrative.

55 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that dialogical philosophy offers psychology a way to conceptualize and study human experience such that the notion of psyche is preserved and enriched, and discuss the implications of dialogism for theories of the self.
Abstract: The authors argue that dialogical philosophy, and particularly the work of the Bakhtin circle, offers psychology a way to conceptualize and study human experience such that the notion of psyche is preserved and enriched. The authors first introduce the work of the Bakhtin circle and then briefly outline some of the most influential theories of self and psyche. The implications of dialogism for theories of the self are then discussed, focusing on six basic principles of dialogical thought – namely, the principles of relationality, dynamism, semiotic mediation, alterity, dialogicality, and contextuality. Together, these principles imply a notion of psyche that is neither an isolated homunculus nor a disembodied discourse, but is, rather, a temporally unique, agentive enactment that is sustained within, rather than against, the tensions between individual and social, material and psychological, multiple and unified, stable and dynamic. The authors also discuss what this dialogical conception of psyche implie...

54 citations


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TL;DR: The analysis of the different articles in this special issue gives a rather promising but complex image of a dialogical approach to psychology as mentioned in this paper, and it is worth noting that the authors of this article have pointed out that the otherness and the institutional, transpersonal dimensions are also present in every dialogical act, something that tends to be overlooked.
Abstract: The analysis of the different articles in this special issue gives a rather promising but complex image of a dialogical approach to psychology. Mikael Leiman proposed utterances as the object of study for psychotherapy research, semiotic mediation as the explanatory principle, and semiotic position as the unit of analysis. Frank Richardson cautioned us about how dialogical proposals can become entrapped by the extreme decentering tendency of social constructionism. James Cresswell, in his turn, claimed that Bakhtin's work is precisely a way of avoiding the unbalanced account of personal vacuity and freedom found in many constructionist accounts: it is precisely because we are bound to social ties that we become ethically involved with others and, indeed, with ourselves. Michele Grossen and Anne Salazar Orvig claimed that otherness and the institutional, transpersonal dimensions are also present in every dialogical act, something that tends to be overlooked. Moore et al., following this suggestion, pointed...

13 citations



Book Chapter
01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: The Guerrillero as mentioned in this paper is a short story about a woman in a civil war who experiences inner change from a state of strong panic when thinking of being searched by soldiers, through a recollection of her amorous experiences with a rebel fighter, to a heroic state of great calm and readiness in the face of whatever is awaiting her.
Abstract: Dialogical thinkers have long known that consciousness is a kind of irreversible flow that passes through similar (but not identical) positions; yet, the methodological tools to analyse these complexities have not been wholly adequate. Analytic strategies need to be developed that demonstrate both how to identify positions and analyze their spatial/temporal relationships. To this end, the present chapter aims to concretely explore researchers' reasoning in conducting a dialogical analysis of intra-psychological discourse. Six researchers were given the task of independently carrying out a dialogical analysis of Angel's (1985) stream-of-consciousness short story The Guerrillero (see Appendix A). The main object of the text is the narrator ‐ a woman named Felicidad Mosquera. Felicidad is both the thinker and that which is thought about, she is knower and known, subject and object—in short, what James (1890) called the ‘I’ and the ‘Me’. But we also find in Felicidad’s stream of thought a number of significant others, such as her lover, her tormenters, and their previous victims (i.e. “Him” and “Them”) which Felicidad can use to reflect on herself. Thus, Felicidad’s stream of thought is replete with I-positions and dialogical tensions between them. The plot of the story is very simple: in the context of a civil war, a woman is expecting some soldiers who might abuse her for having hosted a rebel fighter, the Guerrillero. The text narrates her experience of inner change, from a state of strong panic when thinking of being searched by soldiers, through a recollection of her amorous experiences with the Guerrillero, to a heroic state of great calm and readiness in the face of whatever is awaiting her. How can we analyze these profound intra-psychological movements from a dialogical perspective? In what follows five approaches are advanced. These approaches were first developed for a symposium at the Fifth International Conference for the Dialogical Self.

8 citations


01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, dialogism is presented as a relational paradigm in which intersubjective and communicational relationship is considered the most appropriate to further explore and understand self-hood.
Abstract: Dialogism is presented as a relational paradigm in which intersubjective and communicational relationship is considered the most appropriate to further explore and understand selfhood. In abandoning the paradigm of self-awareness for the comprehension of selfhood, dialogism attempts to elaborate on the importance of the intersubjective relationship to the constitution of the psychological domain. For that, the relationship is grounded in the postulate of radical otherness. This means that the irreducible asymmetry and difference between Self and Other is considered to open an ontological relational space with logical and pragmatic qualities within which processes of subjective and intersubjective meaning construction take place. The characteristics and processes inherent to this external communicational and intersubjective space are considered to mold the internal domain of selfhood that is seen as being structurally and functionally continuous and dependent on such external relational space and processes. Selfhood is then conceived as a product of the continuous dynamic processes that are established between the I (as center of experience), the other-in-me (as the background from which the I experiences the world), and internal audiences that shape the specifi c positioning of content and processes of subjectivity in the experiential and communicative moment. On this basis, the future challenges faced by dialogical theory of selfhood are addressed.

1 citations