Brief Overview of Dialogical Psychotherapy

This brief overview of the approach to psychotherapy and counseling known as Dialogical Psychotherapy will be helpful to counselors, social workers, nurses, therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. It introduces the basic ideas of this approach that is based on Martin Buber's existential philosophy. It outlines an approach that is based upon the concepts of dialogue in helping others; including a basic stance that holds as its basic principle: 'healing through meeting'.