“…Discussions of the psychoanalytic relevance of linguistic knowledge, as related to the form and type of verbal, non-verbal and paralinguistic communications observed within the analytic situation, are regularly published (see e.g. Shapiro, 1979;Tuckett, 1983;Poland, 1986;Makari and Shapiro, 1993;Canestri, 1994). Rizzuto, for example, drawing in part on Roman Jakobson's contributions, has recently examined the clinical situation as a 'prolonged conversation, an extended speech event ' (2002, p. 1325).…”