ABSTRACT
Let us now proceed to the real meat of this book ± the new work on the dialogical self and its companions. What we shall do here is to give examples of actual work done in the ®eld, taken from research studies where the theory was used in practice. What we shall ®nd is that
Therapeutic conversation is the process through which the therapist and the client participate in the co-development of new meanings, new realities and new narratives. The therapist's role, expertise, and emphasis in this conversational process is to develop a free and open conversational space and to facilitate an emerging dialogical process in which ``newness'' can occur.
