Interviewing the Internalized Other and the Distributed Self

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ID21320065
AutoresKarl Tomm (0000-0003-3502-9076, University of Calgary and Calgary Family Therapy Centre Calgary Alberta Canada, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen64
Número1
Páginase70025-e70025
Fecha de publicación2025-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFamily Process (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-7370 • E-ISSN: 1545-5300
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/famp.70025
PMID40098567
OpenAlexW4408579074
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas20

A unique psychotherapeutic method of Internalized Other Interviewing (IOI) has emerged over the last 35 years. It is based on a social constructionist and bringforthist perspective in which a person as a self‐aware individual is seen to arise through a rich history of interaction with other human beings. If a therapist can apply this understanding and conceive of the self as constituted by an internalized community in one's memory, it becomes coherent to interview any member of that inner community as an internalized other within the client. As a result, the possibilities for intervention in a client's relationships are expanded. If the IOI method is used in the presence of the actual other in conjoint work, the latter could meet their distributed self as they exist in the interviewee, and even more change possibilities arise. This paper focuses on applying the method in clinical practice using examples, transcripts, and commentary

Intervention (counseling) · Interview · Perspective (graphical) · Psychotherapist · Self · Social relation · Sociology · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology · Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy