Narrating the dialogical self: Toward an expanded toolbox for the counselling psychologist

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 105-120

  Neimeyer, Robert A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Biographical construction; Counselling psychologist; Dialogical processes; Narrative therapy

Indexed keywords

COUNSELING; LIFE EVENT; NARRATIVE; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 33646697537     PISSN: 09515070     EISSN: 14693674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09515070600655205     Document Type: Review

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