Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives

by Jones, Raya; Morioka, Masayoshi

• ISBN13: 9780230285798
• ISBN10: 0230285791
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-06-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This collection of cutting-edge chapters contributes to the psychology of personhood especially (but not only) as applied in psychotherapy. The chapters are written from Jungian, dialogical-self, or both perspectives and give insights into the history of ideas, and clinical and research applications of these perspectives in the East and West.

Author Biography

Raya A. Jones is Senior Lecturer in Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. She teaches Personality and Social Psychology, and Developmental Psychopathology. Her interests are Jungian, dialogical and narrative approaches to self and identity. She served on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies. Masayoshi Morioka is Professor in the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Japan. His main field is narrative-based approach to psychotherapy. Research concerns include common factors of therapeutic conversations, and the cultural-historical approach to personality development.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; R.Jones & M.Morioka
The Dialogical and the Imaginal; R.Jones& H.Hermans
Listening to the Narratives of a Pre-modern World: Beyond the World of Dichotomy; M.Yama
Transforming Self-narratives in Psychotherapy: Looking at Different Forms of Ambivalence in the Change Process; C.Cunha, M.M.Gonçalves& J.Valsiner
Mapping the Dialogical Self in Jung's Memories, Dreams and Reflections; S.Ahammed
Dialogicality and Creativity; M.Puchalska-Wasyl
Internal Dialogical Activity: Types and Personality Correlates; M.Puchalska-Wasyl
Fiction and the 'Uncanny Valley' of Self-Confrontation; R.Jones
The Masculine and the Feminine in Japanese Women: Expressions in Sandplay and Myth; K.Nakamur
Dialogical Self and the Soul; J.Rowan
Re-examining the Concept of 'Self': Insights from a Comparative Analysis of Dialogical and Eastern Perspectives of Self; I.Cherian &S.Ahammed
Jung and Miki: Similarities and Differences; S.Muramoto
The Cosmology of Inner Speech: Jung and Vygotsky; M.Morioka
Epilogue; R.Jones
Index