Cultural-Historical Psychology
2007. Vol. 3, no. 1, 93–100
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)
On the Dialogical Nature of Psychotherapeutic Experience
Abstract
The author reviews the different types of psychotherapeutic experience — just like they exist in everyday life, regardless of the moment of its special cultivation within the organised activity of a psychotherapist or a consultant. He distinguishes between two types of the experience, depending on its origin: impressive and expressive. As the author puts it, spontaneous forms of psychotherapeutic experience are based on a fundamental ontological need for 'the other' which is a non-specific condition of al organised forms of psychotherapy. The dialogical character of communication in psychotherapeutic process creates a kind of inner — natural — precondition that allow psychotherapeutic phenomena to occur, regardless of therapist's professional attainments.
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Keywords: psychotherapy, psychological counseling, "unintended psychotherapy", examples from literature and history, "Self" and "Other", M.M. Bakhtin, marketing character, E. Fromm, dialogical paradigm
Journal rubric: Psychotherapy and Psychocorrection
Article type: scientific article
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For citation: Kopyev, A.F. (2007). On the Dialogical Nature of Psychotherapeutic Experience. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 3(1), 93–100. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/chp/archive/2007_n1/Kopyev (viewed: 03.07.2025)
© Kopyev A.F., 2007
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
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