Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives [Hardcover]

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, clinical and research applications of these perspectives in the East and West.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.Gon?alves & 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 IndexSHAIMA AHAMMED Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Counselling, UAE University, Al-Ain, United Arab EmiratesCARLA ALEXANDRA CASTRO CUNHA Student of the Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at University of Minho, Braga, PortugalISAAC CHERIAN Licensed Counsellor as well as Yoga-practitioner and is currently working as a Student Services Officer for the Madinat Zayed Higher Colleges of Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesMIGUEL M. GON?ALVES Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology in University of Minho, Braga, PortugalHUBERT J. M. HERMANS Emeril³'