Picture your inner and outer figures on one stage
Imagine a stage with your inner characters entering from one side and your outer figures from the other, then notice how the two groups are linked.
Por que funciona
The PPR is explained to participants with a theatre metaphor suggested by Hermans (2001). Inner characters enter from the left and outer characters from the right, and the method is explained as a way to study how the two groups are linked, intra- and intergroup (DeSouza et al. 2013, p. 324).
Como fazer
- Imagine a theatre stage with the inner characters you chose entering from the left.
- Imagine the outer figures you chose entering from the right.
Evidência
DeSouza et al. (2013), p. 324: participants are invited to imagine a theatre stage on which inner characters enter from the left and outer characters from the right, and the method is explained as a way to study how the two groups are linked, intra- and intergroup. The metaphor is attributed to Hermans (2001). (anecdotal)
The study explained this metaphor to participants as part of the procedure. These steps come from a research assessment procedure (DeSouza et al., 2013), here described for reading on your own. The metaphor is an explanation given to participants, and no source tests whether imagining the stage changes anything, so the level is anecdotal. Stop line: if an imagined figure brings up strong feeling that feels too much to hold, stop and work with a trained therapist.
Fontes
- DeSouza, M. L., Oliveira, M. Z., DaSilveira, A., & Gomes, W. B. (2013). A lógica da dialogicidade narrativa no Repertório de Posições Pessoais [The logic of narrative dialogicality in the Personal Position Repertoire]. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 29(3), 321-329.
- Hermans, H. J. M. (2001). The construction of a Personal Position Repertoire: Method and practice. Culture & Psychology, 7(3), 323-366.
Erro comum
Treating the stage as a fixed cast list. The metaphor describes characters entering and relating, so the picture belongs to one moment and is worth revisiting.
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Mais práticas para Dialogical Self Theory: Hermans and the Self as Inner Positions
- Set the voices down and come back to your body
Put the list of positions aside, feel your feet and breath, and let the room hold you while the loud voice quiets.
- Reach a clinician now if the voices are unclear or frightening
If you cannot tell what is you, or a voice pushes you toward not being here, reach a trusted person and a clinician now rather than sorting it out alone.
- List your inner and outer positions and choose the ones you recognise
Choose from a list of inner figures and outer figures the ones you recognise in your life, and name any the list leaves out.
- Rate how strongly each inner position shows up toward each outer figure
Take the positions you chose and rate, from 0 to 5, how strongly each inner position is active in your relation to each outer figure.
- Write a story from two of your positions, then rate what shaped each one
Choose two of your positions, build a narrative across past, present and future with guided questions, then rate how much events and people in your life affected each valuation.
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