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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Proffering connections: psychologising experience in psychotherapy and everyday life |
Author: | Ekberg, S. |
Citation: | Frontiers in Psychology, 2021; 11:583073-1-583073-17 |
Publisher: | Frontiers Media SA |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 1664-1078 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Stuart Ekberg |
Abstract: | Conversation analytic research has advanced understanding of the psychotherapeutic process by understanding how psychotherapy is organised over time in and through interaction between clients and therapists. This study progresses knowledge in this area by examining how psychological accounts of experience are progressively developed across a range of helping relationships. Data include: (1) approximately 30 h of psychotherapy sessions involving trainee therapists; (2) approximately 15 h of psychotherapy demonstration sessions involving expert therapists; and (3) approximately 30 h of everyday conversations involving close friends or family members. This article reports an analysis of techniques that are used to bring together two experiences that were discussed separately, to proffer a candidate connection between them. This proffering of candidate connections was recurrently used in psychotherapy. If confirmed by a client, a proffered connection could be used to develop a psychological account of a client’s experiences, which could then warrant some psychological intervention. In contrast, the proffering of connections was observed in only one of the everyday conversations included in the current study, where it was used to develop psychological accounts of experience. This shows that although proffering candidate connections is an everyday interactional practice, it appears to be used with greater frequency in psychotherapy, to advance its specific institutional aims. |
Keywords: | Conversation analysis; everyday conversation; psychotherapy; non-specific benefit; reference; connections |
Rights: | © 2021 Ekberg. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
DOI: | 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.583073 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE170100026 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.583073 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 8 Psychology publications |
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