An analysis of the process of typification change within a psychotherapeutic setting.
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Title
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An analysis of the process of typification change within a psychotherapeutic setting.
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Identifier
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AAI9325171
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identifier
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9325171
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Creator
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Zlotkin, Frances.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Lindsey Churchill
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Date
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1993
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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, General | Sociology, Individual and Family Studies | Psychology, Clinical | Speech Communication
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Abstract
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In contrast to a Parsonian framework, Harold Garfinkel proposed to develop an understanding of social action built from the analysis of "experience structures". This thesis begins with two basic assumptions: first, the purpose of theory is to provide a framework for an analysis of the construction of social circumstances as they are played out "frame by frame"; second, the construction and recognition of these developing events will be "methodical" because human action is, in general, intelligible and orderly. The task is possible because the order is there. The questions are: What kind of order is it? And how does it work?;Using an ethnomethodological framework, this thesis tries to answer these questions by examining the process of typification as described by Alfred Schutz. Eighteen transcripts compiled from nine separate cases of psychotherapy provide data for this analysis of social interaction. The basic approach involves the intense scrutiny of the content of the verbal material to identify constructs and their typifications and the analysis of how change of typifications was accomplished (or not).;This thesis identified four "key elements" at work influencing the process of typification change during psychotherapy sessions: (1) therapists must be able to elicit verbal information from patients; (2) therapists use selection to establish a topic of talk; (3) therapists do "formulations" of patient's utterances in order to offer them new typifications of their constructs for confirmation or disconfirmation; (4) therapists set up "reality disjunctures" which were then presented to patients for acceptance or rejection. The findings of this thesis substantiate that the ideas proposed by Pollner, Coulter and other ethnomethodologists are at work in patient/therapist interactions in psychotherapy.
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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.
