TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Deppermann, Arnulf
A1  - Scheidt, Carl Eduard
A1  - Stukenbrock, Anja
T1  - Positioning shifts from told self to performative self in psychotherapy
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - According to Positioning Theory, participants in narrative interaction can position themselves on a representational level concerning the autobiographical, told self, and a performative level concerning the interactive and emotional self of the tellers. The performative self is usually much harder to pin down, because it is a non-propositional, enacted self. In contrast to everyday interaction, psychotherapists regularly topicalize the performative self explicitly. In our paper, we study how therapists respond to clients' narratives by interpretations of the client's conduct, shifting from the autobiographical identity of the told self, which is the focus of the client's story, to the present performative self of the client. Drawing on video recordings from three psychodynamic therapies (tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie) with 25 sessions each, we will analyze in detail five extracts of therapists' shifts from the representational to the performative self. We highlight four findings:
• Whereas, clients' narratives often serve to support identity claims in terms of personal psychological and moral characteristics, therapists rather tend to focus on clients' feelings, motives, current behavior, and ways of interacting.
• In response to clients' stories, therapists first show empathy and confirm clients' accounts, before shifting to clients' performative self.
• Therapists ground the shift to clients' performative self by references to clients' observable behavior.
• Therapists do not simply expect affiliation with their views on clients' performative self. Rather, they use such shifts to promote the clients' self-exploration. Yet, if clients resist to explore their selves in more detail, therapists more explicitly ascribe motives and feelings that clients do not seem to be aware of. The shift in positioning levels thus seems to have a preparatory function for engendering therapeutic insights.
KW  - psychoanalysis
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - positioning
KW  - interpretation
KW  - psychotherapy
KW  - social interaction
KW  - self
KW  - Konversationsanalyse
KW  - Interaktion
KW  - Tiefenpsychologisch fundierte Psychotherapie
KW  - Selbst
KW  - Perspektivität
KW  - Narrativität
Y1  - 2020
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-101302
SN  - 1664-1078
SS  - 1664-1078
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572436
DO  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.572436
N1  - Dieser Beitrag wurde mit Mitteln des Publikationsfonds für Artikel in Open-Access-Zeitschriften der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft gefördert.
VL  - 11
IS  - 572436
SP  - 18
S1  - 18
PB  - Frontiers Media S.A.
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -