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Healing Elements of Therapeutic Conversation: Dialogue as an Embodiment of Love
Abstract
From our Bakhtinian perspective, understanding requires an active process of talking and listening. Dialogue is a precondition for positive change in any form of therapy. Using the perspectives of dialogism and neurobiological development, we analyze the basic elements of dialogue, seeking to understand why dialogue becomes a healing experience in a network meeting. From the perspective of therapist as dialogical partner, we examine actions that support dialogue in conversation, shared emotional experience, creation of community, and creation of new shared language. We describe how feelings of love, manifesting powerful mutual emotional attunement in the conversation, signal moments of therapeutic change.
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- Authors
- Seikkula, J., & Trimble, D.
- Venue
- Family Process
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-11-14
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 461-475
- ISSN
- 0014-7370 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-5300
- OpenAlex
- W2115487920
- Cited by
- 255
- References
- 33
- FWCI
- 3.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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