Mutual Smiling Episodes and Therapeutic Alliance in a Therapist-Couple Discussion Task

Darwiche, Joëlle; Roten, Yves de; Stern, Daniel J.; Roten, Fabienne Crettaz von; Corboz‐Warnery, Antoinette; Fivaz-Depeursinge, Élisabeth

doi:10.1024/1421-0185.67.4.231

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“…Darwiche et al. () found mutual smiling episodes during therapist‐couple triadic interactions to be a key element within the affective exchanges that serve to regulate the therapeutic relationship. Benecke et al.…”

Section: Rhythmic Attunement and Embodied Synchronization In Actionmentioning

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“…Raingruber (2001) observed that the therapist and the patient tend to synchronize their nonverbal behavior in important moments of therapy, attuning to each other in this way. Darwiche et al (2008) found mutual smiling episodes during therapist-couple triadic interactions to be a key element within the affective exchanges that serve to regulate the therapeutic relationship. Benecke et al (2005) noted a connection between simultaneous smiling in conflict situations and perceived relationship satisfaction.…”

Section: Therapeutic Changes In Relation To Embodied Synchronymentioning

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The Relational Mind in Couple Therapy: A Bateson‐Inspired View of Human Life as an Embodied Stream

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Research on human intersubjectivity has found that humans participate in a dialogue throughout their life, and that this is manifested not only via language, but also nonverbally, with the entire body. Such an understanding of human life has brought into focus some basic systemic ideas concerning the human relational mind. For Gregory Bateson, the mind works as a system, formed from components that are in continuous interaction with each other. In our Relational Mind research project, we followed twelve couple therapy processes involving two therapists per session, looking at the ways in which the four participants attuned to each other with their bodies, including their autonomic nervous system activity. Using observations from the project, we here describe the ways through which the relational and embodied mind can be realized in a couple therapy setting.

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Section: Rhythmic Attunement and Embodied Synchronization In Actionmentioning

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Section: Therapeutic Changes In Relation To Embodied Synchronymentioning

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The Relational Mind in Couple Therapy: A Bateson‐Inspired View of Human Life as an Embodied Stream

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“…They observed that clients' experience of the session was related to this synchronicity. Observations of embodied attunement have also been conducted by focusing on the facial expression of emotions during psychotherapy interactions (Bänninger-Huber & Widmer, 1999;Benecke, Peham, & Bänninger-Huber, 2005;Darwiche et al, 2008). Marci, Ham, Moran, and Orr (2007) studied client and therapist dyads and found that client-perceived empathy was connected to good mutual concordance in skin conductance (SC) between the participants.…”

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Soft Prosody and Embodied Attunement in Therapeutic Interaction: A Multimethod Case Study of a Moment of Change

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Journal of Constructivist Psychology

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“…Darwiche et al. () found mutual smiling episodes (MSEs) during therapist‐couple triadic interactions to be a key element within the affective exchanges that serve to regulate the therapeutic relationship. In their MSE Coding System (MSE‐CS), they distinguished between supporting, mutual binding, sharing miseries, repairing, and confronting.…”

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The Embodied Attunement of Therapists and a Couple within Dialogical Psychotherapy: An Introduction to the Relational Mind Research Project

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In dialogical practice, therapists seek to respond to the utterances of clients by including in their own response what the client said. No research so far exists on how, in dialogs, therapists and clients attune themselves to each other with their entire bodies. The research program The Relational Mind is the first to look at dialog in terms of both the outer and the inner dialogs of participants (clients and therapists), observed in parallel with autonomic nervous system (ANS) measurements. In the ANS, the response occurs immediately, even before conscious thought, making it possible to follow how participants in a multiactor dialog synchronize their reactions and attune themselves to each other. The couple therapy case presented in this article demonstrates how attunement is often not a simple "all at the same time" phenomenon, but rather a complex, dyadic or triadic phenomenon which changes over time. In the case presented, there was strong synchrony between one therapist and one client in terms of their arousal level throughout the therapy session. It was also observed that high stress could occur when someone else was talking about something related to the participant, or if that person mirrored the participant's words. Overall, it seems that in evaluating the rhythmic attunement between therapists and clients it is not enough to look at single variables; instead, integrated information from several channels is needed when one is seeking to make sense of the embodiment.

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Mutual Smiling Episodes and Therapeutic Alliance in a Therapist-Couple Discussion Task

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

The Relational Mind in Couple Therapy: A Bateson‐Inspired View of Human Life as an Embodied Stream

The Relational Mind in Couple Therapy: A Bateson‐Inspired View of Human Life as an Embodied Stream

Soft Prosody and Embodied Attunement in Therapeutic Interaction: A Multimethod Case Study of a Moment of Change

The Embodied Attunement of Therapists and a Couple within Dialogical Psychotherapy: An Introduction to the Relational Mind Research Project

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