Voutilainen-etal2018

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Voutilainen-etal2018
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Voutilainen-etal2018
Author(s) Liisa Voutilainen, Federico Rossano, Anssi Peräkylä
Title Conversation analysis and psychotherapeutic change
Editor(s) Simona Pekarek Doehler, Johannes Wagner, Esther González-Martínez
Tag(s) EMCA, Psychotherapy, Longitudinal Study
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2018
Language English
City London
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Pages 225–254
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DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-57007-9_8
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Howpublished
Book title Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction
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Abstract

Psychotherapy is geared to facilitate change. Many types of psychotherapy aim to increase the clients’ contact with their problematic experiences that have been previously vaguely known or avoided. The chapter discusses how conversation analysis (CA) can be used to describe such psychotherapeutic process. Based on the authors’ research on cognitive therapy, systemic therapy and psychoanalysis, it is shown that implicit and explicit orientation to longitudinal development of themes that are worked within the therapy relates to sequential contexts in which they are discussed; the process in which the content of a problematic experience becomes more salient in the interaction unfolds in changing relations between the participants’ actions. The chapter introduces the notion of a ‘focal sequence’ as a point of departure for the investigation of such processes.

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