Dialogical relationship of the speech‑language therapist and patient

This text shows that in the era of dialogue, in which – paradoxically – crisis of interpersonal communication is diagnosed, meetings between a speech‑language therapist and the patient should be based on the principles of face‑to‑face dialogue, on a real relationship of dialogic participants, despite the asymmetry resulting from the tasks of both sides of speech therapy. Position of the therapist and his authority can’t explain the ascendency over the patient. According to the assumption of dialogic, dialogue can’t be reduced only to the conversation as alternating exchange of messages, but it is interpersonal relationship, which is the result of openness, genuine interest in other person. Therefore true dialogue should create social relationships. Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00.