Peyrot1987
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Peyrot1987 |
| Author(s) | Mark Peyrot |
| Title | Circumspection in psychotherapy: structures and strategies of counsellor-client interaction |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Psychotherapy, Circumspection |
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| Year | 1987 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Semiotica |
| Volume | 65 |
| Number | 3-4 |
| Pages | 249–268 |
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| DOI | 10.1515/semi.1987.65.3-4.249 |
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Abstract
A number of studies have analyzed counselor-client interaction by examining routine therapeutic transactions to explicate the structures and strategies they exhibit (e.g., Labov and Fanshel 1977; Pittinger et al. 1960; Turner 1972). A central phenomenon in these transactions is the 'negotiation of illness' (Balint 1957). In the case of psychotherapy this negotiation is so essential to the treatment process that psychotherapy might be regarded as itself a process of covert negotiation. Client and counselor collaborate in developing a new definition of the client's situation which incorporates the input of the counselor. This negotiation, like other therapeutic activities, is carried out through conversational processes intrinsic to the interactional organization of psychotherapy (Blum and Rosenberg 1968). That is, there is no 'time out' during which this activity can be implemented; it must be accomplished over the developing course of activity in which it is embedded (Garfinkel 1967; Garfinkel and Sacks 1970).
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