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Love As Dialogue: Finding Human Connection In Conversation, Iliamaris Rivera-Walter
Love As Dialogue: Finding Human Connection In Conversation, Iliamaris Rivera-Walter
Department of Family Therapy Dissertations and Applied Clinical Projects
Dialogue is a conversation situated in a view of existence as relational (Bakhtin, 1981; Buber, 1970). As a result, it evokes love—love as the constant companion to human experience that allows for collaboration, co-existence, and evolution (Maturana & Verden-Zöller, 2008). Dialogue, and its potential to generate love, offers persons the ability to understand how love can be activated within relationships and in daily encounters as a result of dialogical engagement. It also holds implications for the field of family therapy, including the nature and purpose of therapy, as well as training and practice. In order to understand how love and …