The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement

Smith, M. Brewster; Hermans, Hubert J. M.; Kempen, Harry J. G.

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“…These stories "not only govern which meanings are attributed to events, but also select which events are included and which are left out of the story" (Polkinghorne, 2004, p. 58). As these specific interpretations can narrow people's understanding of themselves and the world around them, some self-narratives may become dysfunctional and inflexible (Dimaggio, 2006;Hermans & Kempen, 1993). As suggested by White and Epston (1990), maintenance of these dominant narratives may confine all experiences into a problematic self-narrative, which becomes biased toward the negative details of the experience (Gonçalves & Machado, 1999).…”

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Ambivalence and innovative moments in grief psychotherapy: The cases of Emily and Rose.

Alves¹,

Fernández‐Navarro

Ribeiro

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Psychotherapy

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Several studies have suggested that the process of narrative change in psychotherapy occurs through the emergence and expansion of moments of novelty, known as innovative moments (IMs), that allow changes in the problematic self-narrative responsible for the client's suffering. However, as these IMs challenge typical (and problematic) ways of acting, feeling, and thinking, they may also generate discrepancy or uncertainty. Clients may reduce uncertainty by returning to the problematic self-narrative immediately after the emergence of an IM, thus ensuring the homeostasis of the previous meaning system. This cyclical movement is a form of ambivalence, which can maintain problematic stability across therapy and lead to therapeutic failure. In this study, we identified return to the problem markers (RPMs), which are empirical indicators of the ambivalence process, for all IMs in two cases of constructivist grief psychotherapy. Both cases evidenced a high percentage of IMs with RPMs, and the evolution of IMs and RPMs along treatment was significantly correlated. We suggest that stability of the ambivalence process in grief psychotherapy may represent a form of self-protection from the anxiety or guilt of releasing pain as a disconnection from the deceased.

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Ambivalence and innovative moments in grief psychotherapy: The cases of Emily and Rose.

Alves¹,

Fernández‐Navarro

Ribeiro

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Psychotherapy

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“…Our prospective understanding of a Cultural Psychology of Religion draws inspiration from theoretical work developed by sociocultural psychology on the structure and dynamics of sign use or semiotically mediated action, specially some research based on the fruitful rediscovery of C. S. Peirce, J. M. Baldwin, G. H. Mead, L. S. Vygotsky, and M. M. Bakhtin's works (e.g., Hermans & Hermans-Konopka, 2010;Hermans & Kempen, 1993;Valsiner, 2007;Valsiner & Rosa, 2007;Wertsch, 1991Wertsch, , 1998Wertsch, , 2002Wertsch, , 2009, and from micro-sociological and anthropological research attentive to the fusion between semiotic practices and the production of selfhood (e.g., among other, Goffman, 1959Goffman, , 1961Tomkins, 1987;Turner, 1975Turner, , 1995Turner & Turner, 1995).…”

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Meaning-creation, selfhood, and religion: From religious metanarratives to spiritual self-narratives

Jesus

2011

Estudios de Psicología

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This paper attempts to support the idea that the psychology of religion might be developed as an applied branch of cultural psychology. The scope of the argument is both theoretical and empirical. On the one hand, it is argued that religion functions as the most powerful semiotic system which provides subjects with metaphors, narrative frameworks, rituals and other cultural resources for personalised meaning-construction and life-designing. On the other hand, it is illustrated with an exploratory qualitative study how a specific type of community, a Catholic Seminary, produces a particular set of religious symbols and how their members write their narrative identities in multiple and unstable ways through dialectical tensions and creative self-invention. Thus, the psychology of religion becomes a fruitful laboratory to further investigate the mutually generative interplay between culture and self in order to better understand the plastic process of continuous self-identity formation and transformation. Significado-creación, individualización y religión: desde las metanarrativas religiosas a las autonarrativas espirituales ResumenEste artículo pretende defender la idea de que la psicología de la religión puede desarrollarse como una rama aplicada de la psicología cultural. El ámbito del argumento es tanto teórico como empírico. Por una parte, se razona que la religión funciona como el más poderoso sistema semiótico, que proporciona metáforas, marcos narrativos, rituales y otros recursos culturales a los sujetos para facilitar una construcción del significado personalizada y diseño de vida. Por otra parte, se ilustra con un estudio exploratorio cualitativo cómo un tipo específico de comunidad, un Seminario Católico, produce un conjunto específico de símbolos religiosos y cómo sus miembros escriben sus identidades narrativas de maneras diversas e inestables a través de la tensión dialéctica y autoinvención creativa. Así la psicología de la religión se convierte en un fructífero laboratorio para investigar más a fondo la interacción mutuamente generativa entre la cultura y el individuo con el fin de comprender mejor el proceso plástico de formación y transformación continuo de la identidad propia. Palabras clave: Identidad narrativa, vocación religiosa, psicología cultural, Seminario Católico.Acknowledgments: The present research was partly funded by the Portuguese Ministry of Science (FCT/MCTES). The author expresses his sincere gratitude to all people and institutions that made possible this pioneer research. Their hospitality and generosity provided it with large space and time.

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“…This has been shown in a study of the development of conscious wishes and of feelings of duty during the course of adult life (Frenkel-Brunswik, 1939, p. 417, emphasis added) The question that needed to be answered, and by in large was not at the time, was whether, pending deeper scrutiny, individuals were able to account for the ignored dimension of their personality. In our time, years later, this leads gently into modern dialogical approaches to the self (Hermans, 2001;Hermans, 1995;Hermans & Kempen, 1993;Ferreira, Salgado & Cunha, this Issue) where opposition is, indeed, a powerful basis for transformation of the structure of Ipositions. One of the possible transformations of the structure of I-positions is a fixed structure that was evident in the data of Adorno et al (1950).…”

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Ambivalence in focus: Remembering the life and work of Else Frenkel-Brunswik

Valsiner

Abbey

2006

Estudios de Psicología

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Ambivalence plays an important role in human psychological functioning, yet few theories incorporate ambivalence as a focal topic. In this light, Else Frenkel-Brunswik was pioneer, for in her short lifetime she inspired the world of personality psychology by centring her study on ambivalence. The fruits of understanding surface level thought and behaviour through a place deeper inside are clear in her work; Frenkel-Brunswik provides a window into the presence of opposites within the self as well as the corresponding potential individuals have to avoid them. Broadly speaking, bringing ambivalence back as core topic for psychology allows models from a diverse array of perspectives to more fully account for the complexity of human life.

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The Dialogical Self: Meaning as Movement

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Ambivalence and innovative moments in grief psychotherapy: The cases of Emily and Rose.

Ambivalence and innovative moments in grief psychotherapy: The cases of Emily and Rose.

Meaning-creation, selfhood, and religion: From religious metanarratives to spiritual self-narratives

Ambivalence in focus: Remembering the life and work of Else Frenkel-Brunswik

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