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- Commentary: Accessing the Experience of a Dialogical Self: Some Needs and ConcernsPublication . Cunha, C.; Goncalves, M. M.This commentary focuses on König's (2009) work as an opportunity to elaborate on selfhood as a dynamic and dialogical phenomenon. We depart from Bakhtinian dialogism and dialogical self theory to focus on the dynamics of selfhood processes and draw a more explicit theoretical link between the dialogical self and phenomenological experience. The interconnected dimensions of discontinuity and continuity in a multiple, multipositioned self are also elaborated. We defend that the construction of similitude in the self is permitted by self-regulation and self-organization processes that create recurring patterns in a moving self. Finally, the role that the introduction of difference and alterity can play in the promotion of change and development is also discussed.
- Dialogism in detail: Per Linell’s Rethinking language, mind, and world dialogically and its potentials.Publication . Lourenço, P.; Basto, I.; Cunha, C.; Bento, T.Per Linell’s (2009) book Rethinking language, mind, and world dialogically offers an inte- grated view upon the many strands of Dialogism, establishing itself as an essential ref- erence to the field. In this review of his book we aim to discuss a few selected topics, building upon these with our own views. Initially, we focus on the relevance and urgency of such book by summing up the most important dialogical concepts presented by it. Following our initial argument, we move on to the discussion of contrasts between monological and dialogical perspectives, the concepts of extended mind and the inter- world, suggesting Dialogism as an ontology, and finally, reflecting upon the relation between intersubjectivity and alterity. We conclude our review by stressing how Linell’s book contributes to the unification of an entanglement of different dialogical theories and perspectives, crafting a solid meta-theory. This integration paves the way for a deeper understanding of what constitutes the nature of knowledge and human phenomena, as conceptualized by Dialogism.
- Innovations in psychotherapy: Tracking the narrative construction of change.Publication . Gonçalves, M. M.; Santos, A.; Salgado, J.; Matos, M.; Mendes, I.; Ribeiro, A.; Cunha, C.; Gonçalves, J.
- Innovative moments in psychotherapy: dialogical processes in developing narratives.Publication . Gonçalves, M. M.; Cunha, C.; Ribeiro, A. P.; Mendes, I.; Santos, A. P.; Matos, M.; Salgado, J.
- Re-autoria, imaginação e mudança.Publication . Gonçalves, M. M.; Cunha, C.Neste texto pretende-se enfatizar o papel determinante que a imaginação ocupa no uso da metáfora narrativa em psicoterapia, na medida em que permite a emergência da diferença necessária para a mudança discursiva. Assim, propõe-se que a terapia narrativa de re-autoria, na versão desenvolvida por White e Epston (1990), intencionaliza o uso da imaginação como ferramenta terapêutica essencial para atingir os seus objectivos. A nossa centração na imaginação prende-se com a convicção de que a capacidade do terapeuta e dos clientes imaginarem possibilidades alternativas na vida das pessoas é mais distintiva da terapia narrativa, do que o uso de qualquer estratégia terapêutica ou prática discursiva específicas (como a externalização). Desta forma, o objectivo do presente artigo é convidar e encorajar os terapeutas desta abordagem a libertarem-se das narrativas dominantes quanto à forma “correcta” de fazer terapia narrativa.
- Rehearsing renewal of identity: Reconceptualization on the move.Publication . Cunha, C.; Gonçalves, M. M.; Valsiner, J.; Mendes, I.; Ribeiro, A. P.
- Talking about voices: A critical reflection about levels of analysis on the dialogical selfPublication . Ferreira, T.; Salgado, J.; Cunha, C.; Meira, M.; Konopka, A. P.
- The dialogical self in movement: Reflecting on methodological tools for the study of the dynamics of change and stability in the self.Publication . Cunha, C.; Salgado, J.; Gonçalves, M. M.
- The emergence of innovative moments in narrative therapy for depression: Exploring therapist and client contributions.Publication . Cunha, C.; Spínola, J.; Gonçalves, M. M.Abstract. According to the narrative framework, clients seek therapeutic help due to the constricting nature of problematic self-narratives and psychotherapy should contribute to the elaboration of narrative novelties and innovative self-narratives. We term these narra- tive novelties as innovative moments (IMs) and developed the Innovative Moments Cod- ing System (IMCS) to study them in psychotherapeutic discourse, differentiating five types of IMs: action, reflection, protest, reconceptualization and performing change IMs. Previ- ous research studies using the IMCS with narrative therapy, emotion-focused therapy and client-centered therapy show that action, reflection and protest IMs appear in good (GO) and also in poor outcome (PO) cases while, reconceptualization and performing change IMs are more typical of good outcome (GO) cases. In this study, we will address how these IMs are co-constructed in the therapeutic dialogue through the discussion of three particu- lar forms of IMs’ emergence in psychotherapy. These forms of emergence refer to different degrees of client and therapist participation: (1) IMs produced by the therapist and ac- cepted by the client; (2) IMs prompted by the therapist and developed by the client; and (3) IMs spontaneously produced by the client. The exploratory analysis of three initial, three middle and three final sessions of contrasting cases (a GO and a PO) of narrative therapy for depression showed that IMs produced by the therapist were more associated to the PO case, while IMs prompted by the therapist were more associated to the GO case.