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New release examines psychotherapy communication model
The Elliptical Dialog: A Communications Model for Psychotherapy.
The Elliptical Dialogue by Gunilla Midbøe is presented in The Elliptical Dialogue: A Communications Model for Psychotherapy as a model for communication, dialogue and reciprocal relationship in analytical work, psychotherapy and supervision. The book also suggests new clinical and theoretical perspectives for analytical psychology by integrating systems theory from Gregory Bateson and language theory from Ludwig Wittgenstein.
“What I like most about this book is the lively impression it gives of what happens in the psychotherapeutic relationship,” writes Murray Stein, Ph.D. “Things are constantly in motion; there is give and take; there are many dimensions simultaneously in play. And all of this is contained within the framework of professional and ethical responsibility, a temenos or sacred space that exists today within our secular world.”
In analytical work as well as in everyday life the essence of human existence sometimes shows itself as unguarded moments of mutual meeting. They cross time and space and become everlasting experiences. Such a moment opened up for Gregory Bateson when he met C G Jung’s poetic text Septem Sermones ad Mortuos. The connection between Bateson and Jung’s view on mind and matter is carefully elaborated in the text. In interaction with Wittgenstein’s view of the deep architecture of nonverbal and verbal language the Elliptical Dialogue points toward an integrated perspective for clinical use both in analytical work and supervision.
Jungian psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and experienced clinicians, supervisors and students as well as the general public interested in analytical psychology will be able to catch the deeper sense of powerful creative energy of elliptical dialogues in personal and professional life.
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| Gunilla Midbøe, MSW.,
certified psychotherapist, supervisor and Jungian psychoanalyst, works
in private practice in the western parts of Sweden. She is a board
member of the Jungian Foundation in Sweden, editor for the net journal
Coniunctio and also a board member of the Danish Society of Analytical
Psychology as well as a member of DSAP’s training committee. She has
presented clinical papers at IAAP conferences in Vilnius, St Petersburg
and congress in Kyoto, written articles and lectures within the field of
analytical psychology. Her main spheres of interest include how symbols
and language interact and contributes to individuation within the
analytical relationship and the development of contemporary analytical
psychology. For more information, visit her website at
www.gunillamidboe.se. |
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PART I: THE ELLIPTICAL DIALOGUE
1. The elliptical dialogue as a map for Jungian psychoanalysis
2. The elliptical dialogue as a map for Jungian supervision
3. The elliptical dialogue and its limitations
PART II: THE ELLIPTICAL DIALOGUE AND TRANSFORMATION IN JUNGIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS — THE CLINICAL PART
4. The elliptical dialogue and individuation
5. Symbol as transformation
6. Language as transformation
7. Active imagination as transformation
PART III: THREE THEORIES IN THE ELLIPTICAL DIALOGUE — THE SYNTHESISING, INTEGRATIVE PART
8. The connecting web – a kind of fishing net
9. Systems theory — Bateson’s contribution and some conclusions for dialogue with today’s analytical psychology
10. Language theory — Wittgenstein’s contribution and how dialogue is used in analytical psychology
11. Analytical psychology — Jung’s contribution to the elliptical dialogue
12. The Elliptical Dialogue as a Communications Model for Psychotherapy |
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