Voutilainen-Perakyla2016

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Voutilainen-Perakyla2016
BibType INCOLLECTION
Key Voutilainen-Perakyla2016
Author(s) Liisa Voutilainen, Anssi Peräkylä
Title Interactional practices of psychotherapy
Editor(s) Jessica Nina Lester, Michelle O'Reilly
Tag(s) EMCA, Psychotherapy, Mental Health
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2016
Language English
City London
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Journal
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Pages 540–557
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DOI 10.1057/9781137496850_28
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Institution
School
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Edition
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Howpublished
Book title The Palgrave Handbook of Adult Mental Health
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Abstract

Psychotherapy is done through interaction between the therapist and the client. Obviously, the ways in which psychotherapists interact with their clients are very much informed by the psychotherapeutic schools that the therapists represent. On the other hand — like interaction in any institutional context — also, psychotherapy, in its various forms, is bound in general norms of conversation, for example regarding turn-taking or general preference for agreement (see Sidnell & Stivers, 2012). Based on conversation analytical (CA) research, this chapter discusses relations between the interactional side of psychotherapy and clinical theories concerning psychotherapeutic work. Because CA is independent from any specific clinical theories of psychotherapy, its methodic tools make it possible to investigate how psychotherapy is done through the ‘generic’ means of social interaction.

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