Pino2014

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Pino2014
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Pino2014
Author(s) Marco Pino
Title Epistemic struggles in addiction Therapeutic Community meetings
Editor(s) Andrzej Zuczkowski, Ramona Bongelli, Ilaria Riccioni, Carla Canestrari
Tag(s) EMCA, MCA
Publisher John Benjamins
Year 2014
Language English
City Amsterdam / Philadelphia
Month
Journal
Volume
Number
Pages 201–221
URL Link
DOI 10.1075/ds.25
ISBN 9789027269218
Organization
Institution
School
Type
Edition
Series
Howpublished
Book title Communicating Certainty and Uncertainty in Medical, Supportive and Scientific Contexts
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Abstract

In this study I analyse Therapeutic Community (TC) group meetings for persons with drug addiction problems. Using the method of Conversation Analysis, I specifically focus on practices of knowledge management and sharing between the educators and clients of a TC in Italy. As part of their institutional remit, the educators encourage the clients to report information on their activities and to disclose aspects of their inner experience. This can lead to epistemic struggles, in which the clients resist providing information and the educators seek to overcome such resistance by making claims of pre-existing knowledge about the clients’ experience. After describing the design and sequential positioning of such claims, I argue that their use is functional to manage one of the dilemmas that characterise the educators’ professional practice.

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