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To introduce clinicians practicing dialogical therapies to Mikhail Bakhtin's major theoretical work, Rabelais and His World, and translate its central concepts into practical reflective tools.

April 29, 2025Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family TherapyOpen Access

Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World: A Practitioner's Reading

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KMKristof Mikes‐LiuThe University of Sydney

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Theoretical analysis reveals core Bakhtinian carnivalesque concepts for dialogical therapy, highlighting novel reflective frameworks for clinical practice.

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To introduce clinicians practicing dialogical therapies to Mikhail Bakhtin's major theoretical work, Rabelais and His World, and translate its central concepts into practical reflective tools.
Conducted a theoretical close reading and conceptual distillation of Mikhail Bakhtin's text Rabelais and His World.
Developed reflective clinical prompts bridging Bakhtinian literary theory with dialogical therapeutic frameworks such as Open Dialogue.
Identified six central Bakhtinian concepts relevant to therapeutic dialogue: laughter, the language of the marketplace (billingsgate), the body and bodily lower stratum, ambivalence, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque.
Provided clinicians with reflective questions to facilitate engagement with bodily, chaotic, and subversive aspects of client communication typically neglected in traditional dialogical models.

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Kristof Mikes‐Liu (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0ff074fa36b6e053fd0ef5 https://doi.org/10.1002/anzf.70003

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Theoretical analysis reveals core Bakhtinian carnivalesque concepts for dialogical therapy, highlighting novel reflective frameworks for clinical practice.

Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World: A Practitioner's Reading

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Mikhail Bakhtin's Rabelais and His World: A Practitioner's Reading

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