Hubert J.M. Hermans - The Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy: An Introduction

Dr Lynne Angus, Clinical Psychologist, is an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at York University and is president of the North American Chapter, Society for Psychotherapy Research. Dr Angus is the senior editor of the Handbook of Narrative and Psychotherapy (Sage 2004) and has published over 30 research articles and chapters relating to the contributions of narrative expression and metaphor to psychotherapy outcomes. She is the originator of the Narrative Processes Coding System (NPCS) which was co-developed with Heidi Levitt PhD and Karen Hardtke M.A. The NPCS has been translated into Portuguese, Spanish, Finnish and German and is currently being used in several international psychotherapy research initiatives. Her therapeutic practice and ongoing research programme are centrally concerned with understanding the role of client narrative expression in experiences of significant self change in psychotherapy.

Michael Barkham is Professor of Clinical and Counselling Psychology and Director of the Psychological Therapies Research Centre at the University of Leeds. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sheffield and Northumbria at Newcastle.

Marie-Ccile Bertau, PhD, studied psycholinguistics, pedagogy, phonetics, and philosophy at the University of Munich. Her PhD dissertation was on metaphors and Western ways of conceiving language. She is Lecturer at the Institute of Psycholinguistics, University of Munich and in addition, undertakes consulting work for the Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Womens and Youth Affairs. She is also involved in research in the ontogenesis of cognition from communication.

Philip M. Bromberg, PhD, is Training and Supervising Analyst, William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Institute; Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Dialogues and ContemporaryPsychoanalysis; Editorial Board Member, Psychoanalytic Inquiry and The Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis; Author, Standingin the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process Trauma, and Dissociation (The Analytic Press, 1998).

Dr Marla Buchanan-Arvay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. She teaches in the Graduate Program in Counselling Psychology with special concentration in qualitative research methods and clinical supervision of counsellors in training. Her research is in the field of trauma with a particular focus on secondary traumatic stress among health care professionals.

Antonino Carcione, MD, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist, Member of Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva, trains students at the Societ Italiana di Terapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale and the School for Specialization in Psychotherapy Associazione di Psicologia Cognitiva (APC). He is author of various articles in national and international journals about psychotherapeutic process and personality disorders and Editor of the journal Cognitivismo Clinico.

Dario Catania, MD, is a Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist in a public Department of Mental Health in Rome. His main interest is the role of narrative in psychotherapy. He is member of Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva and author of various articles in national and international journals about clinical psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Mick Cooper, PhD is a Senior Lecturer in Counselling at the University of Strathclyde, and a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, whose practice combines elements of existential and person-centred approaches to therapy. Mick is co-editor of The Plural Self with John Rowan (Sage 1999), author of Existential Therapies (Sage 2003), and has written several papers and chapters on self-pluralistic, person-centred and existential approaches to therapy.

Let Dillen is Master of Science in clinical psychology. She is currently employed as a researcher of the Fund of Scientific Research-Flanders at the University of Ghent (Belgium), Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology, where she investigates complicated grief in childhood and adolescence.