IJSP Number 6, 2024

31 Henle formulated these and related assumptions as a starting hypothesis, so they require examination, differentiation, and further development. Studying literary works can also contribute to this, as they like to use "inner speech" as a stylistic device to reveal the "inner" lives of their characters, their aspirations, and motives. 3 Under what conditions do such interdependencies actually exist and what forms do they take in everyday life? What do they contribute to coping with life under some conditions and what do they contribute to life's difficulties under other conditions? 4. THE DIALOGIC TRIAD IN PSYCHOTHERAPY The concept of the Dialogic Triad in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy [ 1 ] is based primarily on Mary Henle's approach [ 16 ] . The concept starts from the assumption that the clients’ inner-personal relationship with themselves (1), as revealed in their "inner" conversations, interacts closely with their interpersonal relationships (2) and that the therapeutic relationship (3) is not exempt from this - even more so: due to its immediate accessibility for both parties "in the here and now", it can offer special opportunities for understanding, re-evaluation and restructuring of the situation. This also enables new interactions with the client's inner-personal relationship to herself and her most important interpersonal relationships. In Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, this concept of the Dialogic Triad is of course not limited to the client. It also includes the therapist, for whom there is an equally close interaction between their "inner" conversations and their "outer" communication and relationship life, which will also manifest itself in one form or another in the therapeutic and supervisory relationship. Accordingly, in Gestalt Theoretical Psychotherapy, attention is not only focused on the Dialogic Triad in the client, but also on that in the therapist, on how the interplay between the two takes shape and what possibilities arise from it. Let's look at this more closely using an example. 4.1. USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE “INNER CRITIC” The "inner critic" has now also arrived in everyday psychology. In all kinds of contexts, people say of themselves that they have an "overly harsh inner critic", that they shouldn't be so hard on themselves, and so on. 3 For example, the Gestalt psychologist Andrzej Zuczkowski and his colleague Ilaria Riccioni at the University of Macerata examined the "inner monologues" in the novellas "Sun and Shadow" by Luigi Pirandello and "Lieutenant Gustl" and "Miss Else" by Arthur Schnitzler [ 15 ] .