THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: A CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS OF DISAGREEMENT.
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Title
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THE LANGUAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY: A CONVERSATIONAL ANALYSIS OF DISAGREEMENT.
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Identifier
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AAI8119675
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identifier
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8119675
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Creator
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SEPERSON, SUSANNE BLEIBERG.
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Contributor
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Dr. Churchill
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Date
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1981
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Sociology, Theory and Methods
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Abstract
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The underlying rules of interaction within a psychotherapeutic setting were analyzed by examining conversation between a therapist and his patients. The theoretical focus is based on the ethnomethodological and conversational analysis perspectives presented in the works of Harold Garfinkel, Harvey Sacks, and Lindsey Churchill. Disagreement is integral to the psychotherapeutic relationship and therapy as a whole may be viewed as a correctioning process whereby the patient presents material and the therapist comments upon it. Disagreeing activities, such as contradiction, negative reinterpretation and reality-confrontation were examined. The work of therapy is accomplished through the use of everyday rules of conversation, the violation of these rules as well as rules specific to the therapeutic context. Disagreement and congruency maxims based on verbal and nonverbal communications were developed. Disagreement is negotiated through the use of category formation and negative reinterpretation. The patient may be encouraged to change maladaptive personality and behavior patterns through the use of confrontation. The production of confrontation, as an activity, was analyzed in depth in order to better understand the socially constructed nature of reality. An inter-disciplinary review of the literature was also undertaken in order to show why conversational analysis is an appropriate approach to understanding the activity of disagreement in the therapeutic context.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Sociology
