1st Edition

Dialogue and Desire Mikhail Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy

By Rachel Pollard Copyright 2008
    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    256 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book is an exploration of the relationship between the Russian philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin, and contemporary dialogical psychotherapy, describing the psychoanalytic and linguistic conception of the dialogical self.

    About the Author -- Introduction -- Who was Mikhail Bakhtin? -- Bakhtin, Dialogism, and European Philosophy -- Bakhtin, the Dialogical Self and Dialogical Psychotherapy -- Some Limitations of Dialogism as a Model for Psychotherapy -- Interdividual Psychology and the Dialogical Self -- Towards a Further Integration of Interdividual Psychology and Dialogical Consciousness via Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Linguistics -- Bakhtin’s Ethics and Psychotherapy -- Towards a Bakhtinian Practice of Psychotherapy

    Biography

    Rachel Pollard