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Contributions for Modeling the Psychotherapeutic Process of Change

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This essay is a contribution to the discussions on the modeling of the psychotherapeutic process of change. Three aspects are highlighted: an evaluation of the emergence and transformation of novelty in the narratives of the clients; the inclusion of the psychotherapist as a dialogical partner that constructs with the client her new narratives; and a tentative analysis of the meaning-making of this construction along the successive moments of the dialogical exchanges between the client and the psychotherapist. It is finally pointed out some gains in modeling the client-psychotherapist dialogical process of (ex)changes.

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Lyra, M.C.D.P. Contributions for Modeling the Psychotherapeutic Process of Change. Integr. psych. behav. 45, 347–354 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-011-9178-3

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