Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Tables......Page 9
Contributors......Page 10
Foreword. Filling the gaps......Page 13
What are psychotherapies?......Page 17
Linguistic and social scientific studies of psychotherapy interaction......Page 19
Psychotherapy process research......Page 22
Conversation analysis......Page 24
Study of institutional interaction......Page 28
CA studies on psychotherapeutic interaction......Page 30
Conversation analysis addressing the concerns of psychotherapists......Page 34
Conversation analysis and questions about the outcome of the therapy......Page 36
2 Formulations in psychotherapy......Page 38
Challenges and corrections......Page 39
Extensions......Page 41
Formulations......Page 42
A brief history of the technical use of the term formulation in discourse studies......Page 43
What formulations do institutionally......Page 45
Formulations in the service of therapeutic interpretation......Page 46
Formulations in managing the progress of the session......Page 49
Formulations in history-taking......Page 50
Resistance......Page 52
Concluding comments......Page 54
3 Clients’ responses to therapists’ reinterpretations......Page 55
Some organizational features......Page 56
Two kinds of therapists’ statements on clients’ events: formulations and reinterpretations......Page 58
Therapists’ formulations......Page 59
Therapists’ reinterpretations......Page 60
Clients’ responses to reinterpretations......Page 62
Acknowledgment tokens......Page 63
Mere agreements......Page 66
Extended agreements......Page 68
Conclusions......Page 72
Introduction......Page 74
Preliminary sketch of the phenomenon......Page 75
The relevance of lexical substitution to the psychotherapeutic situation......Page 76
Lexical Substitution and other-initiated other repair and correction......Page 79
Lexical substitution as a resource for displaying understanding......Page 82
Disagreements and formulations......Page 86
Conclusion......Page 90
5 Resisting optimistic questions in narrative and solution-focused therapies......Page 92
Questions and their presuppositions......Page 93
The design of optimistic questions......Page 94
Client responses that misalign with optimistic presuppositions......Page 97
Refocusing responses......Page 98
Joking and sarcastic responses......Page 100
Complaining about optimistic questions......Page 101
Refusing to cooperate with elements of the question......Page 102
Summary......Page 103
Therapist strategies for dealing with resistance......Page 104
Discussion and conclusion......Page 106
6 Conversation analysis and psychoanalysis: Interpretation, affect, and intersubjectivity......Page 112
Interpretation......Page 113
Affective communication......Page 118
Dreams and affect......Page 121
Intersubjectivity......Page 126
Conclusion......Page 130
7 Identifying and managing resistance in psychoanalytic interaction......Page 132
Psychoanalytic interaction: Working with “puzzles”......Page 133
Focusing on the prior action to invoke a puzzle......Page 135
Characterization of the client’s prior action presented as evidence......Page 142
Discussion......Page 149
The therapeutic goal of identifying with each other......Page 151
The dynamics of talking in a group......Page 152
Variation in person references as a device for constructing experiences as identifiable......Page 155
Conclusions......Page 162
9 Conversation of emotions: On turning play into psychoanalytic psychotherapy......Page 164
Action under description and psychotherapy......Page 165
A comment on method......Page 168
Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for children starting school......Page 170
Conversation of emotions......Page 180
Conclusion......Page 182
10 A psychotherapist’s view of conversation analysis......Page 185
The medical and the interactional model of psychotherapy......Page 186
The manifold meanings of psychotherapeutic concepts and the therapeutic “exchange of words”......Page 188
Empirical psychotherapy research......Page 191
Enactments and nonverbal behaviour......Page 193
The effects of psychotherapy......Page 195
Conversation analysis for psychotherapy research?......Page 197
11 A review of conversational practices in psychotherapy......Page 200
A survey of research findings......Page 201
Therapists’ recipient actions......Page 203
Extension......Page 204
Reinterpretative statements......Page 205
Questioning......Page 206
Clients’ responding actions......Page 207
One psychotherapy or many psychotherapies?......Page 208
Transcription Symbols......Page 210
References......Page 212
Author index......Page 227
Subject index......Page 231