An Auto‐Ethnographic Study of “Open Dialogue”: The Illumination of Snow |
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| Authors: | Mary Olson |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Psychiatry, The University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA |
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| Abstract: | This auto‐ethnographic study describes the changes in the author's thinking and clinical work connected to her first‐hand experience of Open Dialogue, which is an innovative, psychosocial approach to severe psychiatric crises developed in Tornio, Finland. In charting this trajectory, there is an emphasis on three interrelated themes: the micropolitics of U.S. managed mental health care; the practice of “dialogicality” in Open Dialogue; and the historical, cultural, and scientific shifts that are encouraging the adaptation of Open Dialogue in the United States. The work of Gregory Bateson provides a conceptual framework that makes sense of the author's experience and the larger trends. The study portrays and underscores how family and network practices are essential to responding to psychiatric crises and should not be abandoned in favor of a reductionist, biomedical model. |
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| Keywords: | Open Dialogue Dialogic Practice Biological Reductionism Auto‐ethnography Dialog diá logo abierto prá ctica dialó gica reduccionismo bioló gico autoetnografí a diá logo 公 开 对 话 兑 换 实 践 生 物 简 化 论 自 传 人 种 学 对 话 |
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