Dialogue and Desire

Rachel Pollard currently works as a psychotherapist in private practice, specialising in cognitve analytic therapy and has previously worked in the NHS and in higher education. She graduated from the University of Wales and studied social and community work in Zimbabwe. She has an MA in couselling studies and a PhD in sociology from the University of Manchester.

'Rachel Pollard's lucid exploration of the landscape of Bakhtinian-inspired psychotherapy opens up a dialogue with theoretical perspectives that enrich our understanding of Bakhtin and also of the role of desire in the practice and politics of psychotherapy.' - Ian Parker, Professor of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University and Lacanian Psychoanalyst. 'Pollard's impressive reading of Bakhtin offers some novel and useful insights into psychotherapy.'- Peter Good, Author of 'Language for Those Who Have Nothing: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Landscape of Psychiatry'

• About the Author -- Introduction -- Who was Mikhail Bakhtin? -- Bakhtin, Dialogism, and European Philosophy -- Bakhtin, the Dialogical Self and Dialogical Psychotherapy -- Some Limitations of Dialogism as a Model for Psychotherapy -- Interdividual Psychology and the Dialogical Self -- Towards a Further Integration of Interdividual Psychology and Dialogical Consciousness via Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Linguistics -- Bakhtin’s Ethics and Psychotherapy -- Towards a Bakhtinian Practice of Psychotherapy