Dialogical Sequence Analysis

Mikael Leiman is Professor Emeritus in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Counselling at the University of Eastern Finland, Finland. He introduced Cognitive Analytic Therapy to Finland, has trained psychotherapists for four decades, and developed dialogical sequence analysis (DSA), a microanalytic method for exploring how internal mental activity is embodied in expression.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part 1: Basic abstractions.- Chapter 2: The concept of activity.- Chapter 3: Object-directedness of external activity.- Chapter 4: The reciprocal power relation between actor and object.- Chapter 5: Signs as mediators of activity.- Part 2: Applying the basic abstractions.- Chapter 6: First signs.- Chapter 7: Development of the second sign system.- Chapter 8: Listening to the client: Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of utterance.- Chapter 9: Configurations of internal and external activity patterns.- Chapter 10: Dissociation as a protective response.- Chapter 11: Process of collaborative client work.