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Volume 6 Number 1
Spring 2012
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Essential Elements of Dialogically-Based Research of
Psychotherapy: A Proposal (Commentary) Eugenie Georgaca Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece |
pp. 161-171 |
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ABSTRACT. This
paper outlines a proposal regarding the
essential elements that I believe should be
included in a dialogically based
research approach to psychotherapy and discusses
the extent to which the four
analytical approaches presented in the papers of
this section take them into
account. I contend that, firstly, any dialogically
based research on
psychotherapy should be grounded on a view of
psychotherapy as a semiotic
process and therefore analyse the meanings that
are produced and negotiated in
actual psychotherapy sessions. Secondly, the
dialogical character of the self
should be explored through employing a
performative micro-analysis of
psychotherapy sessions, which highlights the
articulation of the positions that
make up and enact the client’s self. Thirdly, the
analysis should focus on the
interaction between client and therapist, and
should specifically explore the
therapist as an interactional other, as a
counter-position to the client’s
position, as an institutional position and as a
contributor to the interaction.
Finally, the role of sociocultural processes in
the contribution of the self
and the psychotherapeutic interaction should be
actively examined as well as
the role of psychotherapy as an institution. It
seems that, while all four
research approaches accept these points as
theoretical premises, not all fully
take them into account in the analysis of
psychotherapy extracts. |
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