The Dialogical Self’s Round Table: Who Sits At It and Where?

Abstract

We propose a new method to measure distances between different I-positions in internal dialogue. Subjects facing and then making a major life decision via internal dialogue can indicate the places of different voices in the dialogical self's structure. The subjects' task is to assign a place to themselves (narrator I) and their imaginary interlocutors at a round table.

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“…The therapist not only analyzes the client's narration, but also gives them space to voice it within a safe relationship. Several measures -quantitative questionnaires (see, e.g., Hermans, 2001;Oleś, 2012) and projective tasks (Bokus, Bartczak, Szymańska, Chronowska, & Ważyńska, 2017) -have been designed within the DST framework, but the situation of the dialogue between the client and the therapist remains the central element (Opoczyńska, 2012), as "before the story reaches a final ending, it has taken another direction or turn under the influence of voices co-constructing new or alternative stories as part of the polyphony of the mind" (Hermans & Dimaggio, 2004, p. 2). The dialogue thus involves the client's voices, which they try to make sense of and communicate to the therapist, as well as the therapist's presence and voices responding to the client.…”