Hubert Hermans- Creator of the Dialogical Self Theory
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My Personal Inspiration: Why am I doing this?
Some family members and friends said to me after my retirement “Why do you go always go on? Why don’t you stop?” Then I asked myself: Why am I doing this work? What is my basic inspiration?
My most spontaneous answer is that it is a “drive,” something which is incessantly pushing me from the inside, I just cannot stop it, I have to go on. Moreover, it gives me the well-known “pleasure beyond small talk,” like drinking water f...
Read more... Self, Identity, and Globalization in Times of Uncertainty: A Dialogical Analysis
Review of General Psychology, 2007, 11, 31-61
Hubert J. M. Hermans
Radboud University
Giancarlo Dimaggio
Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva
Our era is witnessing an increasing impact of globalization on self and identity and at
the same time a growing uncertainty. The experience of uncertainty motivates individuals
and groups to find local niches for identity construction. This article’s central tenet
is that the processes of globalization and localization, as global...
Read more... The Dialogical Self: Toward a Theory of Personal and Cultural Positioning
Abstract
Culture & Psychology, 2001, 7, 243-281
Abstract
The dialogical self proposes a far-reaching decentralization of both the concept of self and the concept ofculture. At the intersection between the psychology of the self in the tradition of William James and the dialogical school in the tradition of Mikhail Bakhtin, the proposed view challenges both the idea of a core, essential self and the idea of a core, essential culture. In apparent contradiction with such a view, th...
Read more... The Construction of a Personal Position Repertoire: Method and Practice
Culture Psychology 2001; 7; 323
Whereas the preceding article (Hermans, 2001) was focused on the
theory of the dialogical self, the present contribution deals with a
method, based on the same theory, and its application in practical
settings. The method, the Personal Position Repertoire (PPR), is based
on the following considerations.
First, the purpose of the method is the study of the organization and
reorganization of a person’s position repertoire with attention to...
Read more... The dialogical self: Beyond individualism and rationalism
Hubert J.M. Hermans, Harry J.G. Kempen, & R.J.P. van Loon
American Psychologist, 1992, 47, 23-33
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Read more... The Person as a Motivated Storyteller: Valuation Theory and the Self-Confrontation Method
Hubert J.M. Hermans
In: R.A. Neimeyer, & G.J. Neimeyer, Advances in Personal Construct Psychology: New Directions and Perspectives (pp. 3-38). Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002.
As a researcher in the field of personality I started, at the end of the sixties, to construct tests for the measurement of achievement motivation and fear of failure (e.g., Hermans, 1970). Dissatisfaction, however, with the objectifying and impersonal nature of these tests, with the separation between assessment...
Read more... Voicing the self: From information processing to dialogical interchange
Hubert J.M. Hermans
Psychological Bulletin, 1996, 119, 31-50
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Read more... Moving cultures: The perilous problems of cultural dichotomies in a globalizing world
Hubert J.M. Hermans & H.J.G. Kempen
American Psychologist, 1998, 53, 1111-1120.
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see also the polemic discussion around this article in the 1999 October issue of the same journal (pp. 837-841) ...
Read more... Moving through three paradigms, yet remaining the same thinker
Counselling
Psychology Quarterly,March 2006; 19(1): 5–25
Abstract The author reflects on his scientific and professional career as it developed over 40 years.Partly as an autobiographical sketch, he describes three phases, each guided by a specificparadigm: individual differences, narrative, and dialogical. Looking back at the differentphases, the author emphasizes the non-linear nature of his development, in which thepreceding phases merged into the next one, resulting in complex c...
Read more... Self as an Organized System of Valuations: Toward a Dialogue with the Person
Hubert J.M. Hermans
Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1987, 34, 10-19
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Read more... The dream in the process of valuation: A method of interpretation
Hubert J.M. Hermans
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1987, 53, 163-175
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Read more... Opposites in a dialogical self: Constructs as Characters
Hubert J. M. Hermans Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 1996, 9, 1-26
Abstract
Bakhtin's (1973) polyphonic novel serves as a metaphor for a dialogical conception of the self. In line with this metaphor, it is argued that a narrative approach leads to a multivoiced conception of the self, in which the poles of a personal construct are related as opposing characters positioned in an imaginal space. In this space the I fluctuates among positions in a dialogical fashion. Two mai...
Read more... The Integration of Nomothetic and Idiographic Research Methods in the Study of Personal Meaning
Hubert J. M. Hermans
Journal of Personality, 1988, 56, 785-812
Abstract
This study presents the technique of self-investigation as a research tool for the study of personal meaning from the perspective of the general and the particular. After reviewing the nomothesis-idiography debate, I argue the personality psychology can benefit from a combination of nomothetic and idiographic research methodologies. This creates a need for new theoretical frameworks that incorporate both n...
Read more... The Meaning of Life as an Organized Process
Hubert J. M. Hermans
Psychotherapy, 1989, 26, 11 -22
Abstract
In this article the experienced meaning of one's life is conceived of as an organized process. The organizational aspect is characterized in terms of a number of personal valuations ordered into a composite whole. The process aspect is characterized in terms of the ongoing chances and reorganizations in one's life meaning over time. Two empirical studies are reported which rely on a self-confrontation procedure for assess...
Read more... Midlife crisis in men: Affective organization of personal meanings
Hubert J.M. Hermans & Piotr Oles
Human Relations, 1999, 52, 1403-1426
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to explore the specific affective organization of personal meanings in midlife crisis in men. Midlife crisis is described as a process of intensive transition of the self including the reinterpretation of time perspective, re-evaluation of life values and goals, confrontation with death as a personal event in the future, and planning of the second half of life. Per...
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