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Index of Titles

A complete list of all conference contributions. Use the alphabetical filter or the search box below to find specific submissions. Click on any contribution to view its session details.

Contribution Title	Author(s)	Session
"Don't Talk About Politics": Political dialogue in the spaces in-between answerability and polyphony	Westbrook, Fiona	Collective Identities, Political Voices and Activism
“The Queer Community Is Too Fragmented And Doesn’t Fight Together — Especially Gay Men!”: Negotiation of Roles, Community, and Identities Within Queer Activism	Jacob, Lina	Collective Identities, Political Voices and Activism
“Who Am I to Speak About Reconstruction?” Dialogical Positioning of Ukrainian Refugee Students in Japan	Hanamura, Kateryna	Collective Identities, Political Voices and Activism
An AI Supported Application for Psychotherapy Based on the Model of the Agonistic Self	Džinović, Vladimir (1); Popović, Vojin (2)	Workshop 3
An Overview of Existing Interventions and Therapeutic Activities That Facilitate Dialogical Changes in Psychotherapy Clients - Part I	Georgaca, Eugenie	Symposium 1
An Overview of Existing Interventions and Therapeutic Activities That Facilitate Dialogical Changes in Psychotherapy Clients - Part II	Georgaca, Eugenie	Symposium 2
Autobiographical Tattoos and Self-Construction	Cseko, Csilla (1); Cseko-Szel, Anna (2)	Identity Reconstruction and Repositioning
Becoming a Professional While Becoming Black: An Autoethnographic Study of Professional Identity in Higher Education	Lauriano de Andrade, Wesley Matheus (1); Kullasepp, Katrin (2)	Educational and Professional Identities: Dialogical Processes of Becoming
Becoming Alive: Reimagining the Post-Divorce Self as a Work of Art	Fecho, Bob	Keynote Speech 1 - Prof. Bob Fecho
Beyond the Mother Role: A Dialogical Exploration of Identity, Care, and Separation Through a Dream	Sotiropoulou, Ifigenia	Motherhood, Loss and Transformation
Career Development as a Dialogical Process in Intercultural Work Contexts: Internal Dialogue and Self-Positioning Among Japanese Business Professionals	Ikarashi, Atsushi; Iba, Takashi	Educational and Professional Identities: Dialogical Processes of Becoming
Challenges in Outcome Studies for Dialogical Self-Therapies	Mainguy, Barbara (1,2); Mehl-Madrona, Lewis (1,2,3,4)	Psychological Adaptation, Recovery and Mental Health
Challenging the Cognitive Paradigm: A Comparative Study of Cognitive and Dialogical Models in Explaining Women’s Sexual Satisfaction	Akiş, Sinem Begüm; Gabińska, Anna	The Self in Dialogue: Voices, Reflection and Meaning-Making
City Dialogues	Gkini, Penelope (1); Kiapoka, Anna (2)	Workshop 9
Clinical uptake of a Dialogical Self Theory summer school in counselling and psychotherapy: Six-month follow-up	Gkantona, Georgia; Ntagkas, Fotios	Dialogical Processes in Psychotherapy
Co-constructing "Being Understood" in Life-Story Interviews: A Dialogical Narrative Analysis of Brain Tumor Illness Narratives	Liang, Yingdi	Psychological Adaptation, Recovery and Mental Health
Communication and Identity in LGBTQ+ Psychotherapy: A Dialogical Perspective on the Therapeutic Relationship	Gkleka, Chrysilia; Kadianaki, Irini	Dialogical Processes in Psychotherapy
Constructing Voices of the Professional Self: A Bakhtinian Perspective Grounded in Healthcare and Social Welfare Practices	Tajima, Atsushi	Symposium 10
Contradictions and the Dialogical Self in Long-Term Creative Practice — An Auto-TEM Analysis of Creative Vision Treating Creative Artifacts as “Voices” —	Tanaka, Hiroaki (1,2); Iba, Takashi (1)	Educational and Professional Identities: Dialogical Processes of Becoming
Creating Relational Ripples in Psychotherapy: The Relational Space Within and Between Us	Karamatsouki, Marilena (1,2)	Workshop 7
Developing the Dialogical Self by ZELVI/FLOW: A DST-Centered Pedagogical Framework for Countering Religious Identity Deadlocks in Youth	Kurt, Ibrahim; Ter Avest, Ina	Negotiating Identity in Cultural, Religious and Digital Contexts
Dialogical Approaches Across Contexts: Working With Voices, Identity, and Agency	Issari, Philia	Symposium 6
Dialogical Bodies and Decolonial Methodologies: Collective Image‑Reading as an Approach to the Dialogical Self of Brazilian Women Educators	Di Santo, Marcella (1); Weise, Crista (2)	Decolonizing Selves and Knowledge
Dialogical Identity: Concept and Method of Investigation	Oles, Piotr	Invited Lecture 3
Dialogical Self — Created to Be Integrated: Formation of the Maternal Bond	Uriko, Kristiina; Uriko, Roland E.	Motherhood, Loss and Transformation
Dialogical Self Dynamics and Affective-Semiotic Fields in Adolescents with Overweight	Salcedo Ariza, Maria Cecilia (1); Roncancio Moreno, Monica (2)	Health, Illness and Embodied Experience
Dialogical Self Theory as a Bridging Theory	Hermans, Hubert	Keynote Speech 2 - Prof. Hubert Hermans
Dialogical Self Theory In Collaborative Writing. Qualitative Research With Clinicians And People With Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia (TRS)	Chiara, Giacomo (1); Faccio, Elena (2); de Bartolomeis, Andrea (3); Iasevoli, Felice (4); Vitelli, Roberto (5)	Psychological Adaptation, Recovery and Mental Health
Dialogical Self Theory, Bakhtin Philosophy and Professional Becomings	Janfada, Mahtab	Symposium 13
Dialogical Sonic Self-Portraits: Voice as Common Ground in Dialogical Self Theory	Athanasios, Verdis	Invited Workshop 1
Dialogues of Becoming: The Self in Psychotherapy, Training, and Life Transitions	Bafiti, Tsabika	Invited Symposium 7
Discovering Qissas as Dialogical Narrative Methodology	Mustafa, Rashida	Decolonizing Selves and Knowledge
Do People Gesture When They Talk To Themselves?	Brinthaupt, Tom (1); Park, Juana (2); Cuffari, Elena (3)	The Self in Dialogue: Voices, Reflection and Meaning-Making
Edgar Morin’s Complexity Thinking: Its Added Value for Dialogical Self Theory	Zomer, Peter	Invited Paper 1
Education as change: a Few Projects and Some Reflection	Ligorio, Beatrice	Keynote Speech 3 - Prof. Beatrice Ligorio
Embodied Dialogues and Photographic Mirrors: Activating the Dialogical Self through Expressive Arts	Ntagkas, Fotios (1); Xanthoudaki, Olga (2); Gkantona, Georgia (1)	Workshop 8
English across Everyday Life: A Language Ecology of I-positions and It-positions among First-Generation Bilingual College Students	Smith, Mark Philip	Educational and Professional Identities: Dialogical Processes of Becoming
Examining the Relationship Between Caregiver Burden, Attachment and I-Positions in Relatives of Patients Suffering from Cancer	Bagatur, Ilayda; Gabińska, Anna	Health, Illness and Embodied Experience
Expanding Dialogical Space under Representational Pressure: A Pattern Language for Supporting Refugee Children, Grounded in Dialogical Self Theory in Japan	Tomono, Takao	Narratives of Migration, Displacement and Identity Reconstruction
Family-Emergent Voices And Supervisory Dialogue In Shaping Therapeutic Stance: A Clinical Family Therapy Case	Pappa, Vasiliki	Dialogical and Relational Processes in Therapy
Favorite Fiction Stories and the Voices of Women with Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser Syndrome: A Group Intervention in Narrative-dialogical-informed Medical Care	Triantafyllidi, Vera (1); Kalampoka, Eleni (2); Michalas, Lina (1); Androutsopoulou, Athena (2)	Health, Illness and Embodied Experience
Fragmented Selves: Studying the Voices of Ordinary and Distinct Persons in Psychosis	POIMENIDOU, PEGGY	Symposium 15
From Conformity to Self-Authorship: A Dialogical Self Theory Analysis of Self-Reconfiguration in a Young Adult with a Refugee Background	Tomono, Takao	Narratives of Migration, Displacement and Identity Reconstruction
I-Positions of Outsiderhood in a Researcher–Practitioner: From Curiosity to Guilt-Driven Reflexivity	Kajiwara, Saho; Sen, Yuko	The Self in Dialogue: Voices, Reflection and Meaning-Making
Identity and Migration from a Dialogical Perspective. Obstacles and Resources	de la Mata-Benítez, Manuel L.	Invited Symposium 8
Identity Development from Erikson to Hermans	Oosterwegel, Annerieke	Development Pathways of the Dialogical Self
Imported Self Theory: AI, Disposable Identities and the Collapse of Ideal Sovereignty	Stanciulescu, George	Negotiating Identity in Cultural, Religious and Digital Contexts
Indigenous Narrative Therapy	Mehl-Madrona, Lewis (1,2,3,4); Mainguy, Barbara (2,3)	Workshop 4
Innovations in Assessing Dialogical Qualities: Novel Instruments and Validations	Burstein, Or	Invited Symposium 4
Innovative Methodologies for Studying the Dialogic Self	Freire, Sandra	Invited Symposium 5
Integration of Osteopathy and Dialogical Self-Therapy for Physical Afflictions	Redlin, Sophie (1); Mehl-Madrona, Lewis (2); Mainguy, Barbara (3)	Health, Illness and Embodied Experience
Internal Dialogue Within Digital Gameplay: Who Are We Talking To, and Why?	Puchalska-Wasyl, Małgorzata M.	Inner Dialogue, Reflexivity and Identity Construction
Knowledge in Tension: Dialogicality, Decolonisation, and Social Representations	Amjad Ali, Subas (1,2)	Decolonizing Selves and Knowledge
Learning through Live Session Observation, the Genogram and the Training Group : Dialogical Spaces, Polyphony, and the Development of Therapist Identity	Thanopoulou, Kia	Symposium 14
Looking To The Mountain Embodying the Dialogical Self - towards an Idiothetic Science	Van Loon, Rens	Invited Lecture 4
Maternal Grief: In the Space Between Silence and Words — Experiencing the Loss of a Child in the Tempi Train Disaster	Thanopoulou, Kia	Motherhood, Loss and Transformation
Multiple I-Positions of a Soldier Amputee Due to an Anti-Personnel Mine	Sanchez Rios, Hernan; Noreña Salas, Javier	Identity Reconstruction and Repositioning
Multiple Selves in Educational Contact Zones: East Asian Academic Experiences Through Dialogical Self Theory	Kim, Eun Bee Ellin	Symposium 7
Narrative and Dialogic Spaces of I-Positions in The Migration Stories of Survivors of Trafficking. A Qualitative Study.	Chiara, Giacomo (1); Tarocco, Iman (2); Cavaliere, Sara (3); Romaioli, Diego (4); Faccio, Elena (5); Vitelli, Roberto (6)	Narratives of Migration, Displacement and Identity Reconstruction
Navigating Contradictions and Responsibilities in the Poly-Crisis Climate: Transnational Narratives of Dialogical Selves	Janfada, Mahtab	Invited Symposium 6
Navigating the Future: Internal Dialogues in Decision-Making, Wisdom, and Self-Continuity	Gabińska, Anna	Invited Symposium 1
New Directions in Dialogical Process Analyses in Psychotherapy?	Valsiner, Jaan	Panel
P01_A Visual Narrative Approach to Social Selves	Yokoyama, Sosuke	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P02_Creating Relational Ripples through the Use of Autoethnographic Stories in Psychotherapy: The Dialogical Self in action!	Karamatsouki, Marilena (1,2)	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P03_Designing with Voices: Teachers’ Decision-Making and the Integration of Generative AI in Secondary Education	Calmaestra-Quirante, Aida	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P04_Emergence and Transformation of Expressions of Diverse Masculinities in Activists of the LGTBI Movement in Colombia	Sanchez Rios, Hernan; NIño Vazquez, Jose Alejandro	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P05_From Dialogical Self to Dialogical Self-Authorship: Towards a Conceptual Framework for the Development of Educators’ Professional Identity in Crisis Contexts	Prosina, Olha	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P06_How Are Speakers’ Opinions Constructed?: Through Communication via Listeners’ “Rephrasing” in Elementary School Lessons	Yokoyama, Megumi	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P07_How the Self Understands Other Minds: An Exploratory Factor Analysis of a New Theory of Mind Measure from Open-ended Reports	Racy, Famira; Schorn, Jenny; Vermette, Makayla; Morin, Alain	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P08_When The Dialogical Self Mitigates Darkness: How Dialogical Flexibility Buffers The Negative Impact Of Machiavellianism On Intellectual Humility	Kutnik, Jan; Puchalska-Wasyl, Małgorzata; Bąk, Wacław	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P09_Inter-Position Conflicts and Self-Care in Japanese Maternal Toothbrushing Rituals: A Dialogical Self Approach	Suzuki, Komi	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P10_Introducing "Transitiance": Framing the Psychologist's Professional Being in Transitience	Lindgren, Julie Bo	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P11_Learning Polite Confrontations: Inner Democracy and Self-Transformation in Facilitated Dialogues	Raudsepp, Maaris; Baltin, Arno	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P12_Living In The Parental Home In Young Adulthood: Identity Negotiation Among Men	Shafransky, Moria; Amram Vaknin, Sima; Tatar, Moshe	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P13_Negotiating Positions In Couples Therapy: Discursive Analysis Of Session.	Kafetzidaki, Magdalini Zoi; Kounidou, Ioanna; Ntimenou, Stauroula; Panagopoulou, Marina; Papageorgiou, Amalia; Pappa, Charitini; Sgouromalli, Dimitra	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P14_Relational Approaches In Addiction Work In The Context Of Sexual Abuse Trauma: Collaboration With Social Workers	Ruiz, Tabita	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P15_The Colors Of Maud Lewis: The Role Of A Childhood Memory In Her Construction Of Identity	Fygetakis, Efstratios; Gonata, Amalia; Papalexi, Melina; Roumelioti, Maria	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P16_The Dialogue of Intentions: Exploring Meta-Intentionality and the Negotiation of Ipositions in Psychotherapy	Indius, Simone	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
P17_The Voice Of The Body: A Qualitative Study of Clients' Meaning Making Of Somatic Symptoms	Malliou, Eleni; Lekkou, Eleni; Mita, Evdokia; Nikolaou, Korinna-Ourania; Sotiropoulou, Ifigeneia	Coffee Break \| Poster Session
Parrhesia, Dialogue, and the Authenticity of Identity	B. Erdos, Marta	Inner Dialogue, Reflexivity and Identity Construction
Parts, Voices and Positions: A Dialogue Between Dialogical Self Theory and Internal Family Systems Theory in the Context of Multiplicity-Informed Psychotherapy	Roussou, Polina	Invited Workshop 2
Polyphonic Selves: From Image to Voice in Arts-Based Dialogical Practice	Kim, Eun Bee Ellin; Cho, Caryn; Zhang, Yifan; Zhou, Lilian; Yeung, Ethan	Workshop 5
Problematizing Identity in Metamodern Era: Who is the Metamodern Human?	Ghaempanah, Babak; Stephenson, Katie; Khapova, Svetlana	Narratives of Migration, Displacement and Identity Reconstruction
Quantitative and Qualitative Ways of Assessing Narrative Therapy and Dialogical Self-Therapy	Mainguy, Barbara (1,2); Mehl-Madrona, Lewis (1,2,3,4)	Dialogical Processes in Psychotherapy
Quranic Narratives Within The Framework of Dialogical Self Theory: Repositioning and Identity Construction In An Age of Uncertainty	Keskin, Yakup; Tabar, Umit	Negotiating Identity in Cultural, Religious and Digital Contexts
Reading Narratives: Generation and Dialogue of Fictional Characters within the Self	Iba, Takashi	Inner Dialogue, Reflexivity and Identity Construction
Relational Family Therapy in Action: Supporting Affect Regulation through Role-Play in Family System	Gostečnik, Prof. dr. Christian; Repič Slavič, Prof. dr. Tanja	Dialogical and Relational Processes in Therapy
Relationships Between Self-talk and Self-reflective Processes	Morin, Alain	The Self in Dialogue: Voices, Reflection and Meaning-Making
Researching Practice via Wobble Stories and an Oral Inquiry Process	Fecho, Bob	Workshop 1
Scholars Within the Self: A Dialogical Self Perspective on the Formation of Ways of Seeing and Thinking through Reading Scholarly Works	Iba, Takashi	Negotiating Identity in Cultural, Religious and Digital Contexts
Self-criticism as a dialogical process: Matching together Emotion-Focused Therapy and the Dialogical Self	Salgado, João	Invited Paper 2
Systemic Family Psychotherapy as an Open Dialogue Space to Promote Positive Mental Health Outcomes and Intrapsychic Wellbeing	Markouizou Gkika, Aimilia	Dialogical and Relational Processes in Therapy
The Axiomatic Shift in the Study of the Self: Thirty years of theoretical innovation	Valsiner, Jaan	Invited Lecture 1
The Dialogical Process of Becoming a Psychologist	Kullasepp, Katrin	Invited Symposium 2
The Dialogical Self and Polyphony – Diversity in Space: Resonating Multiple Voices in the Field of Psychosocial Support	Morioka, Masayoshi	Symposium 5
The Dialogical Self in Adolescent Literacy: Insights into Reading, Writing, and Language Learning	Coombs, Dawan	Symposium 11
The Dialogical Self in Flux Within Culture — Exploring Contradictions —	Banda, Kiyomi	Invited Symposium 3
The Dialogical Self: Contributions from a Semiotic Cultural Perspective	Branco, Angela	Invited Lecture 2
The Impact of Refugee Experiences on the Cultural Identity of Syrian Children Residing in Jordan: A Dialogical Self Perspective	Suleiman, Heba (1); Weise, Crista (2)	Collective Identities, Political Voices and Activism
The Intersection of Indigenous Philosophies of Mind and Self with Dialogical Self-Theory/Therapy	Mehl-Madrona, Lewis	Symposium 9
The Liberating Power of Dialogue in Arrested Transitions	B. Erdos, Marta	Identity Reconstruction and Repositioning
The Many Voices of Grief: DST and Writing the Self	Lengelle, Reinekke	Invited Paper 1
The Practice of Dialogical and Relational Reflexivity: Navigating Power and Contradictions in Systemic Psychotherapy	Gotsis, Elias	Dialogical Processes in Psychotherapy
The Readerly Writerly Self: Exploring Literacy Through a DST Lens	Barber, Chelsey	Symposium 3
The Recovery of Voice and Self-Acceptance: How Polyphony Possesses Healing and Restorative Power？	Morioka, Masayoshi	Symposium 4
The Self in Dialogical Relations with Territories	Pinto, Maria Elisa; Costa, Tiago; Ferraz C D Freire, Sandra; S Lopes de Oliveira, Maria Claudia	Decolonizing Selves and Knowledge
The Therapist’s Role in Relational Family Therapy with Survivors of Sexual Abuse Experiencing Flashbacks	Repič Slavič, Prof. dr. Tanja	Dialogical and Relational Processes in Therapy
Towards a Dialogical Architecture for AI Agents: Recognising and Refining the "Society of Mind" in Pedagogical Expert Systems	Medina-Gual, Luis	Invited Lecture 5
Tracing and Mapping Early Dialogicality in Preschool Children: A Thematic Analysis of Reflective Journals and Application of the IMAP-C Method	Sakoulogeorga, Despina (1); Verdis, Athanasios (2); Gkantona, Georgia (3)	Development Pathways of the Dialogical Self
Transformative Dialogical-Self through Graduate Education from Ordinary to Professional Working Adults: A View of Triple-loop Learning Theory	TOYODA, Kaori	Symposium 8
UrU: A Nomothetic Map for the Digital Exploration of Idiosyncratic I-Positions	Oosterwegel, Annerieke	Development Pathways of the Dialogical Self
Voices Across the Divide: Rethinking Gender Identity and the Tension Between Similarity and Difference in Adult Mother–Daughter Conversations	Even Zahav, Ronit	Motherhood, Loss and Transformation
Voices into Stories: Transforming I-Positions through Dialogical Writing	Sanida, Stavroula	Workshop 2
Voices of Culture Within the Woman’s Self: Rethinking the Ideal Self Through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	Fevzieva, Anife; Kostenko, Vasily	Identity Reconstruction and Repositioning
Voices of trauma and resilience in the lives of Gwen Jonh, Pina Bausch, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin: A dialogical and narrative framework for psychobiography.	Androutsopoulou, Athena	Symposium 12
WHEN VOICES CHANGE: Innovative Moments and the Dialogical Self in Psychotherapy	Gonçalves, Miguel	Keynote Speech 4 - Prof. Miguel Gonçalves
Where Do Our Worlds Meet? – Toward a Meta-Position in Parenthood	Kiapoka, Anna	Workshop 6
Working with Childhood Dreams and Early Memories: Tracing Common Themes and Voices	Nikolaou, Androniki; Rozou, Eugenie; Viou, Maria; Androutsopoulou, Athena	Development Pathways of the Dialogical Self
Writing the Self: Dialogical Transformations for Research and Life	Lengelle, Reinekke	Invited Workshop 3