Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations
This book presents 9 theory-based and practice-oriented methods for assessing and stimulating a multi-voiced dialogical self in the context of groups, teams, cultures, and organizations. All of these methods are based on Dialogical Self Theory. The book d
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Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations
Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations
Hubert Hermans Editor
Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations
Editor Hubert Hermans Emeritus-professor of psychology Radboud University of Nijmegen The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-319-32481-4 ISBN 978-3-319-32482-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-32482-1
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Preface
What is the origin of this book? Together with my colleagues, I published the first article on the dialogical self in the American Psychologist in 1992. This article marked the beginning of a period of more than 20 years of research, which led to the production of several hundreds of books and articles in a wide variety of scientific journals. At the same time, some practice-oriented psychologist did the painstaking and laborious job to develop new and original methods for assessing and stimulating a dialogical self and applied them systematically in their own coaching and counselling settings. With some of these colleagues I stayed in close connection and followed them over the years. I noticed that their work was not only inspired by Dialogical Self Theory but also powerful enough to enable clients to change their life or career situation. After studying my colleagues’ work and discussing it with them, I decided to select nine methods of high theoretical significance and practical utility for publication in this book. I invited the authors of these methods to describe their techniques in detail, to sketch their protocols, to show how the method works in a realistic case study and to exp
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