The Dialogical Therapist

Several good books exist about systemic understanding in therapy and a few about dialogic understanding. However, none trying to bridge the gap between these two world views, which have some similarities, but also a whole array of differences. The most striking one is the very vantage point for obse [...]
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Several good books exist about systemic understanding in therapy and a few about dialogic understanding. However, none trying to bridge the gap between these two world views, which have some similarities, but also a whole array of differences. The most striking one is the very vantage point for observation each of them holds. According to systemic theory, we exist only in and because of the network of relationships we are embedded in. In dialogic theory, we inhabit different worlds, and we need dialogue (we need engaging in that hard struggle that is proper dialogue) in order to make them communicate with each other. Putting these different views together poses problems but a good dialogic exercise too.The author found it increasingly necessary as he felt the longer the more uncomfortable with the more conventional versions of Batesonian systemic wisdom he had adopted in previous years, while at the same time he could not feel convinced by some of the new ideas about dialogue, where one was compelled to get rid of everything she thought valuable in systemic understanding. This book is an attempt to find a bridge.