Dag van Wetter interviews Nick Putman about his motivation for co-creating the book ‘Open Dialogue for Psychosis’ and his passion for the approach.

Psychiatry as healing of the soul Nick, first of all, congratulations on the book. Because we have known each other for some time now, I know that you have been working on this book for quite some years, with remarkable effort and strong determination. Even long before that, you have been working very hard on developing Open Dialogue practice. But …
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Open dialogues in the present and the future – new developments

Some years ago I wrote a paper named “Becoming Dialogical: Psychotherapy or a Way of Life?”, which was published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (Seikkula, 2011). The idea – as the title suggests – was to describe my professional history. I am very grateful to the editor for asking me to write it, …