Eszter Berán was born in Budapest, Hungary. She completed her Master’s degree at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, USA, and her PhD in psychology at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 2010.  She is currently an associate professor at the Institute of Psychology at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest.Zsolt Unoka M.D., Ph.D., psychiatrist and psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, member of the  Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society. Deputy director of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy and the head of the Psychotherapy ward at Semmelweis University Budapest. Published papers in the area of psychoanalytic process research, and social cognition in borderline personality disorder.

• Introduction Eszter BeránPart 1 Theoretical background of the joint construction of narratives 1. Narrative interaction and its development Eszter Berán 2. Psychotherapeutic discourse Eszter Berán 3. A discourse-based model of narrative perspective Eszter BeránPart 2 Methodology 4. The Budapest Psychotherapy Database Eszter BeránPart 3 Empirical study of the joint construction of narratives in psychoanalysis 5. Autobiographical memory and narrative perspective Zsolt Unoka 6. Introducing a pseudo-narrator Eszter Berán 7. Long-term changes in interpersonal relating Eszter Berán and Zsolt Unoka 8. Long-term changes in expressing agency Eszter Berán and Zsolt Unoka 9. Working in the here and now of the therapeutic session Eszter Berán and Zsolt UnokaConclusion Zsolt Unoka and Eszter BeránReferences and Bibliography Index