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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.
Ausgehend von fundamentalen Einsichten konversationsanalytischer
Interaktionsforschung zum zentralen Stellenwert, den leibliche Kopräsenz und wechselseitige Wahrnehmung für die Ausgestaltung unserer interaktiven Praktiken besitzen, untersucht der Beitrag deiktische Praktiken in der Kommunikation von Angesicht zu Angesicht. Deixis – verbales und gestisches Zeigen für einen Anderen – kann phylo- und ontogenetisch (Tomasello 2003, 2006, 2008) als privilegierte Schnittstelle zwischen Interaktion und Grammatik, zwischen Sprache, menschlichen Körpern, Objekten, Wahrnehmung und Raum betrachtet werden. Auf der Grundlage eines breit angelegten Videokorpus unterschiedlicher Genres werden deiktische Zeigehandlungen als situierte, körpergebundene Praktiken analysiert und systematisch auf transsituative Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede befragt. Die Ergebnisse der empirischen Analysen zur demonstratio ad oculos (dem Zeigen auf Sichtbares, Bühler 1965) und zur Deixis am Phantasma (dem Zeigen auf Unsichtbares, ebd.) werden in einen übergreifenden theoretischen Modell integriert. In dem multimodalen Modell wird Deixis als situierte, die interaktiven, kognitiven und perzeptorischen Ressourcen aller Beteiligten mobilisierende Praxis gemeinsamer Aufmerksamkeitsfokussierung begriffen (Stukenbrock 2015b).
In psychotherapy, therapists often formulate interpretations of clients' prior talk which are ‘unilateral’ in the sense that therapists index that they are themselves the author of an interpretive inference which may not be acceptable to the client. Based on 100 German-language recordings of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy (4 clients with 25 sessions each), we describe a multimodal practice of constructing extended multi-unit turns of delivering therapeutic interpretations. The practice includes gaze aversion until the main point of the interpretation is reached, perceptive and cognitive formulae, epistemic hedges, inserted accounts, parenthesis, self-repair, and self-reformulations. These design-features work together to index that the therapist produces an interpretation that can be heard as being tentative. The design of the therapists' turns reflexively indexes the expectation that the client might resist the interpretation; at the same time they are constructed to avoid resistance and to invite the client's self-exploration into new directions, often with a focus on emotions.