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Examine the clinical and practical relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's six core concepts from Rabelais and His World within therapeutic dialogue.

November 28, 2025Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy

Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World : In Practice Explorations

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KMKristof Mikes‐LiuThe University of Sydney

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Qualitative analysis demonstrates how Bakhtinian carnivalesque concepts translate into therapeutic dialogues, suggesting bodily processes and humor reshape clinical interactions.

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Examine the clinical and practical relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's six core concepts from Rabelais and His World within therapeutic dialogue.
Summarized six Bakhtinian concepts: laughter, marketplace language (billingsgate), the bodily lower stratum, ambivalence, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque.
Applied these concepts to clinical practice through illustrative vignettes paired with reflective commentary.
Demonstrates how Bakhtin's literary theories provide an operative framework for understanding dialogical therapy and human connection.
Reveals that laughter, bodily processes, and carnival-like subversive communication can reshape traditional therapeutic interactions.

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Kristof Mikes‐Liu (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69402fe22d562116f29050af https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70037

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Qualitative analysis demonstrates how Bakhtinian carnivalesque concepts translate into therapeutic dialogues, suggesting bodily processes and humor reshape clinical interactions.

Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World : In Practice Explorations

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Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World : In Practice Explorations

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