Dialogue and Desire

This book is an exploration of the relationship between the Russian philosopher, Mikhail Bakhtin, and contemporary dialogical psychotherapy, describing the psychoanalytic and linguistic conception of the dialogical self. About the Author -- Introduction -- Who was Mikhail Bakhtin? -- Bakhtin, Dialogism, and European Philosophy -- Bakhtin, the Dialogical Self and Dialogical Psychotherapy -- Some Limitations of Dialogism as a Model for Psychotherapy -- Interdividual Psychology and the Dialogical Self -- Towards a Further Integration of Interdividual Psychology and Dialogical Consciousness via Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Linguistics -- Bakhtin’s Ethics and Psychotherapy -- Towards a Bakhtinian Practice of Psychotherapy