Doing We – Working alliance in psychotherapeutic relationships
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Michael B. Buchholz
Abstract
Larger chunks from psychotherapeutic cooperations are presented. Cooperation is studied in empirical psychotherapeutic process research as “working alliance” of which conceptual conflicts are outlined.
I follow a proposal by Ginzburg and Poesio (2016) to micro-analyze hesitation markers as conversational equivalents to embodied pointing gestures. Several stories by patients are told in order to “point” to comparisons between the stories. The concept of “tacit comparisons” is, thus, introduced. Then, a recursive model of common ground is proposed with reference to cognitive-linguistic theory of metaphor (Cienki und Müller 2010; Lakoff 1987). The conversation creates in describable steps new metaphors indicating important change.
Abstract
Larger chunks from psychotherapeutic cooperations are presented. Cooperation is studied in empirical psychotherapeutic process research as “working alliance” of which conceptual conflicts are outlined.
I follow a proposal by Ginzburg and Poesio (2016) to micro-analyze hesitation markers as conversational equivalents to embodied pointing gestures. Several stories by patients are told in order to “point” to comparisons between the stories. The concept of “tacit comparisons” is, thus, introduced. Then, a recursive model of common ground is proposed with reference to cognitive-linguistic theory of metaphor (Cienki und Müller 2010; Lakoff 1987). The conversation creates in describable steps new metaphors indicating important change.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Practices of relationship management in organized helping 1
- Forging relationships in psychotherapeutic interaction 27
- Doing We – Working alliance in psychotherapeutic relationships 51
- What about you? 79
- So let’s say men can’t understand that much 105
- Relationship management by means of solution-oriented questions in German psychodiagnostic interviews 127
- The role of semi-responsive answers for relationship building in coaching 151
- Working alliance and client design as discursive achievements in first sessions of executive coaching 171
- Relationship building in oncological doctor-patient interaction 195
- Practices of relationship building in Hungarian primary care 221
- Building (dis-)affiliative medical relationships through interactional practices of knowledge management 243
- How are you getting on with these? 265
- Twitter as a helping medium 287
- Relational dimensions of organized helping 315
- Index 329
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Practices of relationship management in organized helping 1
- Forging relationships in psychotherapeutic interaction 27
- Doing We – Working alliance in psychotherapeutic relationships 51
- What about you? 79
- So let’s say men can’t understand that much 105
- Relationship management by means of solution-oriented questions in German psychodiagnostic interviews 127
- The role of semi-responsive answers for relationship building in coaching 151
- Working alliance and client design as discursive achievements in first sessions of executive coaching 171
- Relationship building in oncological doctor-patient interaction 195
- Practices of relationship building in Hungarian primary care 221
- Building (dis-)affiliative medical relationships through interactional practices of knowledge management 243
- How are you getting on with these? 265
- Twitter as a helping medium 287
- Relational dimensions of organized helping 315
- Index 329
