Personality organization and language behavior: The imprint of psychological differentiation on language behavior in varying communication conditions

The language behavior of field-independent (F-D) clinically normal, verbally resourceful femal college students was examined in three different communication conditions: Dialogue, Warm (vissually supportive) monologue, and Cold (visually nonsupportive and stressful) Monologue. F-I and F-D Ss produced similar amounts of the different types of language behavior evaluated in each of the three communicative conditions. However, they differed with respect to verbal output and length of sentence "packaging" unit in Monologue conditions. F-D Ss talked considerably less but at the same time produced different types of grammatically more elaborate language behavior in Warm and Cold Monologue compared to their Dialogue language behavior. F-I Ss talked considerably more but also showed a type of language autonomy. The pattern of language behavior which characterized F-I speech in Dialogue remained the same in both Monologue conditions.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
William A. Christian, Oppositions of Religious Doctrines: A Study in the Logic of Dialogue among Religions
Henri Arvon, Marxist Esthetics , transl. by Helen Lane     

An Auto‐Ethnographic Study of “Open Dialogue”: The Illumination of Snow

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.     

Co‐authoring better futures for children and families – Anticipation Dialogue in children’s social care networks

Anticipation Dialogue (AD), in comparison to Open Dialogue, the lesser known form of dialogical network practices introduced by Seikkula and Arnkil, seems not to be used in children’s social care in the UK, and there is little literature about it. In this article I will introduce and explain Anticipation Dialogue and make links to other systemic ideas including Signs of Safety. I will review the literature and give a case example from my children’s social care practice.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: John W. Miller ed., Interfaith Dialogue: Four Approaches, Waterloo Juan Luis Segundo, The Historical Jesus of the Synoptics. Vol. II     

Forgiveness in Context

Book reviewed:
Fraser Watts and Liz Gulliford (eds). Forgiveness in Context: Theology and Psychology in Creative Dialogue.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Creator , Creation and Faith , by Norman Young The Precarious Organization : Sociological Explorations of the Church's Mission and Structure , by Mady A. Thung . Christian Meditation : Its Art And Practice , by H. Wayne Pipkin . Mysticism : Window on a World View , by Margaret Lewis Furse . A Reader's Guide to the Great Religions (second edition), by Charles J. Adams (ed.). Dialogue in Community : Statement and Reports of a Theological Consultation , Chiang Mai , Thailand Faith in the Midst of Faiths : Reflections on Dialogue in Community by Stanley J. Samartha (ed.). Inside Out : A Style for Dialogue (Risk , Vol. 13, No. 3, 1977). Bibliografi Ilmu Agama dan Theologia Kristen Dalam Bahasa Indonesia , Jilid 1, 2. Bibliography of the Scientific Study of Religions and Christian Theology in the Indonesian Language , Volumes 1, 2 by J. A. B. Jongeneel .     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: On Being the Church: Essays on the Christian Community, eds Colin E. Gunton and Daniel W. Hardy. Congregation: Stories and Structures, ed. James F. Hopewell. Long Night's Journey Into Day: Revised Retrospective on the Holocaust, eds Alice L. Eckardt and A. Roy Eckardt. Inter-religious Dialogue in the Catholic Church since Vatican II: an Historical and Theological Study, ed. Robert B. Sheard. Religious Education Encounters Liberation Theology, by Daniel S. Schipani. Theological Roots of Pentecostalism, ed. Donald W. Dayton. Roman Catholic/Pentecostal Dialogue (1977–1982): a Study on Developing Ecumenism, ed. Jerry L. Sandidge.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
James Burtness, Consequences: Morality, Ethics, and the Future
Heup Young Kim, Wang Yang–Ming and Karl Barth: A Confucian–Christian Dialogue     

The architecture of Fazang’s six characteristics

This paper examines the Huayan teaching of the six characteristics as presented in the Rafter Dialogue from Fazang’s Treatise on the Five Teachings. The goal is to make the teaching accessible to those with minimal training in Buddhist philosophy, and especially for those who aim to engage with the extensive question-and-answer section of the Rafter Dialogue. The method for achieving this goal is threefold: first, contextualizing Fazang’s account of the characteristics with earlier Buddhist attempts to theorize the relationships between wholes and their parts; second, explicating the meaning Fazang likely attributes to each of the six characteristics; third, situating the characteristics as explicated within Fazang’s broader metaphysical framework.     

How Berkeley Can Maintain That Snow Is White

Berkeley has made the bold claim on behalf of his theory that it is uniquely able to justify the claim that snow is white. But this claim, made most strikingly in the Third of his Three Dialogues , has been held, most forcefully by Margaret Wilson, to conflict with Berkeley's argument in the First Dialogue that, because of various facts to do with perceptual variation, colors are merely apparent and hence, mind-dependent. This paper develops an alternative reading of the First Dialogue arguments, in which their project is not to establish the mind-dependence of colors but instead to undermine the position that colors are also mind-independent. Under these circumstances, the coherence of the First and the Third Dialogue arguments is assured, just so long as the Third Dialogue claim to have established that snow is really white is not taken to mean that snow is mind-independently white, but instead, something like that our experiences of snow are stably and regularly white.     

Three Approaches to the Disjunction Between Psychological Measurement and Psychological Persons: Methodological and Ethical Considerations

In this paper, we take forward Schwarz’s (2009) disjunction between measurement-apparatus-questionnaire and measurement-apparatus-man to examine how the crisis in contemporary psychology is related to assumptions about two sets of connections in research: connections between research tools, research behaviours, and psychological phenomena; and connections between researchers and researchees. By setting up a research problem with methodological and ethical implications, we describe three approaches that involve different assumptions and research activities in relation to the ways each makes these connections: Disassociated, Conventionally Connected and Persons in Dialogue Approaches. We argue that a Persons in Dialogue Approach is the most appropriate approach for a 21st Century psychology in crisis.     

Book Reviews

C larke , J.J. Jung and Eastern Thought: A Dialogue with the Orient
J acoby , M ario . Shame and the Origins of Self-Esteem: AJungian Approach
L ammers , A nn C onrad . In Cod's Shadow: The Collaboration of Victor White and C.G. Jung     

The Challenges and Responsibilifies of Contextual Theology

Reading from this Place: Social Location and Biblical Interpretation , Fernando F. Segovia and Mary Ann Tolbert (eds)
Local Theology: Church Community in Dialogue , John Reader
Models of Contextual Theology , Stephen B. Bevans     

Iranian Islam in dialogue with European Christianity

A report on the ‘First Joint Theological Symposium: Christians and Muslims in Dialogue’ which was held in the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham from 6 to 8 July, 1992.     

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Indian Women: An Inner Dialogue , I ndira J. P arikh and P ulin K. G arg
Mothers of Sons: Toward an Understanding of Responsibility , L inda R ennie F orcey     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this aritcle:
God of chance . By D. J. Bartholomew.
The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-organization of Energy. By Richard Newbold Adams.
Der Dialog zwischen Theologie und Natunoissenschaft. Ein bibliographischer Bericht. (The Dialogue Between Theology and Natural Science: A Bibliographical Report). Forschuungen und Berichte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft. Band 41. Edited by Jürgen Hübner.
Beyond Mechanism: The Universe in Recent Physics and Catholic Thought. Edited by David Schindler.     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics by Jürgen Moltmann
Nineteenth Century Religious Thought in the West Edited by Ninian Smart, John Clayton, Patrick Sherry and Steven Katz
Theological Dialogue between Orthodox and Reformed Churches Edited by T. F. Torrance
A Black Theology of Liberation by James H. Cone
Theology and Religious Pluralism: the Challenge of Other Religions by Gavin D'Costa
Theology and the Problem of Evil by Kenneth Surin     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Conflict over the Ecumenical Movement , by Ulrich Duchrow. Christian -Marxist Dialogue in Eastern Europe , by Paul Mojzes.     

Christology in Dialogue with Muslims: A Critical Analysis of Christian Presentations of Christ for Muslims from the Ninth and Twentieth Centuries – Mark Beaumont

Book reviewed:
Christology in Dialogue with Muslims: A Critical Analysis of Christian Presentations of Christ for Muslims from the Ninth and Twentieth Centuries , Mark Beaumont, Regnum Books International 2005 (1-870345-46-0), xxiv + 227 pp., pb £19.99