Dialogical Sequence Analysis

Using Conceptual Tools in Collaborative Client Work
Erscheinungsjahr 2027
ISBN: 978-3-032-31039-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Buch, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

This book offers a fresh paradigm for psychology and the helping professions, distilled from four decades of clinical work and theoretical research. Building on Vygotsky, Leontiev, and Bakhtin — and on Vološinov, Winnicott, and contemporary biosemiotics — Mikael Leiman proposes two basic abstractions: object-directed activity and a revised concept of sign as a trace of encounters carrying both object and relation references. The first half of the book lays these conceptual foundations; the second applies them to foetal development, the emergence of language, the structure of utterance, problems of agency, dissociation, and the practice of brief psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching. Richly illustrated with clinical excerpts and developmental research, the book equips practitioners with a microanalytic method — dialogical sequence analysis — for listening to clients with new precision and offers researchers a coherent alternative to current cognitive and neurocognitive paradigms.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leiman, Mikael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Basic abstractions.- Chapter 2: The concept of activity.- Chapter 3: Object-directedness of external activity.- Chapter 4: The reciprocal power relation between actor and object.- Chapter 5: Signs as mediators of activity.- Part 2: Applying the basic abstractions.- Chapter 6: First signs.- Chapter 7: Development of the second sign system.- Chapter 8: Listening to the client: Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of utterance.- Chapter 9: Configurations of internal and external activity patterns.- Chapter 10: Dissociation as a protective response.- Chapter 11: Process of collaborative client work.

Über Autor(innen)

Mikael Leiman is Professor Emeritus in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Counselling at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. He introduced Cognitive Analytic Therapy to Finland, has trained psychotherapists for four decades, and developed dialogical sequence analysis (DSA), a microanalytic method for exploring how internal mental activity is embodied in expression.