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When and how patients' self-claims are challenged in psychotherapy

  • The article describes the practices through which patients’ self-presentations are challenged in psychotherapy. Based on the analysis of thirty-eight instances from psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, analyzed with methods of conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and coding, this article reports on how therapists challenge patients’ self-conceptualizations in response to patients’ self-presentations. Challenges mostly follow patients’ descriptive, narrative, or evaluative accounts that include a strong claim about their self. Challenges to the self pertain to core issues of the therapeutic projects. They are mostly built in ways that show its sensitivity to probable rejection by the patient. Overwhelmingly, the challenge is accounted for by reference to shared knowledge built in the participants’ shared interactional history. Arguably, psychotherapy is a particular setting where the organization of face-work is modified, as occasional challenging of the co-interactant's self-presentation is part of the institutional task of the professional participant. Data are in Finnish and German.

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Author:Anssi PeräkyläORCiDGND, Liisa VoutilainenORCiD, Mariel WuolioORCiD, Arnulf DeppermannORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-128340
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524000435
ISSN:1469-8013
Parent Title (English):Lanugage in Society
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Place of publication:Cambridge
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of first Publication:2024
Date of Publication (online):2024/10/07
Publishing Institution:Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS) [Zweitveröffentlichung]
Publicationstate:Zweitveröffentlichung
Publicationstate:Ahead of Print
Publicationstate:Postprint
Reviewstate:Peer-Review
Tag:coding; face-work
GND Keyword:Deutsch; Erzähltheorie; Finnisch; Interaktion; Konversationsanalyse; Psychoanalyse; Psychodynamische Psychotherapie; Psychotherapie; Selbstdarstellung
Page Number:27
Note:
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Cambridge University Press in Language in Society on 25th September 2024, available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404524000435. This version is published under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND licence. No commercial re-distribution or re-use allowed. Derivative works cannot be distributed. © The Author(s), 2024.
DDC classes:400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Open Access?:ja
Linguistics-Classification:Gesprächsforschung / Gesprochene Sprache
Linguistics-Classification:Pragmalinguistik / Kommunikationsforschung
Program areas:Pragmatik
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International