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TL;DR: Pre- to post-treatment effect sizes for completers in both NT and CBT groups were superior to benchmarked waiting-list control groups.

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: 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: In this article, the authors focus on how to study narrative-dialogical processes from the perspective of complexity and suggest that the reconstruction of a person's self-narrative depends on the structure of relations between i-moments, rather than on the mere accumulation of imoments.

TL;DR: This paper explored how innovative moments in psychotherapy evolve over time and explored how they become aggregated in narrative threads, termed protonarratives, which come to constitute an alternative self-narrative at the conclusion of therapy.