An Introduction to Dialogotherapy

Abstract

This essay introduces the origin, novel ideas and practices of dialogotherapy. Dialogotherapy is linked to second-order cybernetics, the science that studies dialogical practices, which puts it within the hermeneutic circle of interpretation and understanding. Hypnosis is the condition or climate for dialogotherapy. The dialogue of hypnosis creates the context for studying dialogue and investigating unconscious processes. Through this dialogue of hypnosis, dialogotherapists and their patients together bring forth the unconscious they talk about, an unconscious that becomes both a process and their potentially most valuable therapeutic resource.