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Healing Elements of Therapeutic Conversation: Dialogue as an Embodiment of Love
Author(s) -
Seikkula Jaakko,
Trimble David
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00072.x
Subject(s) - attunement , dialogical self , conversation , active listening , perspective (graphical) , feeling , psychology , intersubjectivity , psychotherapist , social psychology , sociology , communication , computer science , medicine , social science , alternative medicine , pathology , artificial intelligence
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.