Forging relationships in psychotherapeutic interaction
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Peter Muntigl
Abstract
Creating and maintaining a positive therapist-client relationship is considered to be essential in achieving therapeutic success, whereas damage to this relationship and the inability to repair disaffiliative episodes may have detrimental effects. So far, very little research has focused on how the relationship between therapists and clients is accomplished and negotiated through talk. Drawing from research in conversation analysis/ CA, I examine a diverse corpus of video-taped psychotherapy sessions to explore the interactional practices that may be ‘typically’ used to forge and create potential shifts in relationships and affiliation. In this paper, I not only set out to illustrate the central role that talk and conduct plays in therapist-client relationship-building, but also how the relationship is an ongoing interactional achievement.
Abstract
Creating and maintaining a positive therapist-client relationship is considered to be essential in achieving therapeutic success, whereas damage to this relationship and the inability to repair disaffiliative episodes may have detrimental effects. So far, very little research has focused on how the relationship between therapists and clients is accomplished and negotiated through talk. Drawing from research in conversation analysis/ CA, I examine a diverse corpus of video-taped psychotherapy sessions to explore the interactional practices that may be ‘typically’ used to forge and create potential shifts in relationships and affiliation. In this paper, I not only set out to illustrate the central role that talk and conduct plays in therapist-client relationship-building, but also how the relationship is an ongoing interactional achievement.
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
