Understanding Your Inner Voices: Dialogical Self Theory
Have you ever felt like there are multiple voices guiding your decisions, each pulling you in different directions? This phenomenon is central to Dialogical Self Theory (DST), developed by Hubert Hermans and his colleagues in the early 1990s. DST offers a fascinating lens through which we can view our self as made up of many different “I-positions,” much like characters in a story or play, each with its own voice and perspective.
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What is Dialogical Self Theory?
Dialogical Self Theory (Hermans et al., 1992; Hermans, 2001) presents the idea that our identity is not a singular, fixed entity but a dynamic narrative space where different aspects of ourselves interact.