Bartesaghi2009a

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Bartesaghi2009a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Bartesaghi2009a
Author(s) Mariaelena Bartesaghi
Title Conversation and psychotherapy: how questioning reveals institutional answers
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Tag(s) Beck Depression Inventory, Elicitation, Goals, Questioning, Questionnaires, Therapy
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Year 2009
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 11
Number 2
Pages 153–177
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DOI 10.1177/1461445608100942
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Abstract

By analyzing session exchanges and questionnaires administered to family therapy clients, this article examines questioning as conversational practice grounded in institutional goals that are therapist-directed and therapist-conceived. In their manifestation in talk and text, therapeutic questions function to replace client accounts with the nosological accounts of institutional psychiatry. The analysis illuminates three ways in which questioning works in the session and then locates these in therapy's professional and institutional logic. A critical reflection on psychotherapy's questioning practices in a social context concludes the article.

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