Dialogische Selbsttheorie:: Geschichte, primäre Konzepte und ihre Bedeutung für die Psychotherapie

Abstract

Dialogical Self Theory: History, main concepts, and implications for psychotherapy. Since its inception in the beginning of the 1990’s, Dialogical Self Theory has found its way in a diversity of fields. It has been applied in education, culture, novelistic literature, psychopathology, counseling, and psychotherapy. In the present article, it is my purpose to expose the origin of the theory, its main concepts, and its implications for psychotherapy. After an exposition of the theory, some practical therapeutic implications will be provided, illustrated by the case of an actual client.