Healing elements of therapeutic conversation: Dialogue as an embodiment of love

Family Process

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 461-475

  Seikkula, Jaakko ^a,b,d   Trimble, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Department of Psychology ^*  (Finland)

Author keywords

Dialogue; Healing; Networks

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LOVE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AFFECT; COMMUNICATION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE; LOVE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 30344450382     PISSN: 00147370     EISSN: 15455300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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