João Salgado

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.

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.

TL;DR: An overview of the mental health professionals' actual needs and concerns regarding the use of online consultations is provided in order to highlight areas of possible intervention and allow the implementation of necessary governmental, educational, and instrumental support so that online consultations can become a feasible and stable option in mental healthcare.

Abstract: Self-multiplicity is a widely recognized phenomenon within psychology. The study of how self-continuity emerges amidst self-multiplicity remains a crucial issue, however. Dialogical approaches are widely viewed as suitable for developing this field of study but they demand coherent methods compatible with their theoretical bases. After reviewing the available methods for the study of the dialogical self, as well as other dialogical methods for the study of psychotherapy, we conclude that we still lack a method which can be used by external observers and is devoted to the systematic tracing of the dialogical dynamics of self-positions as they unfold over time. A new method, positioning microanalysis, is described in detail as a possible way to overcome current limitations in methods focused on the dialogicality inherent in selfhood processes. Positioning microanalysis takes a genetic-developmental perspective on dialogical processes in the self and allows for the depiction of microgenetic movements of self-positions over time and the establishment of more or less stable sequences or patterns of positions. This is illustrated by its application to an emotion-focused therapy session.

TL;DR: As in previously studied therapies, setbacks in EFT, usually represent productive work on relatively less advanced strands of the client's major problems and point to the importance of the therapist attending to the limits of the clients' therapeutic ZPD.