Nonverbal relationship regulation in psychotherapy

Benecke, Cord; Peham, Doris; Bänninger-Huber, Eva

doi:10.1080/10503300512331327065

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“…Benecke et al. () noted a connection between simultaneous smiling in conflict situations and perceived relationship satisfaction. Empathetic experience has been found to include having the same feelings as another person, plus cognitive reasoning concerning the experience and regulation of one's own emotional arousal (Decety, Jackson, & Brunet, ).…”

Section: Rhythmic Attunement and Embodied Synchronization In Actionmentioning

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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

confidence: 99%

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

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“…The number of MSEs was positively correlated with the triadic therapeutic alliance. In relation to nonverbal behavior in couples' interactions, Benecke, Peham, and Bänninger‐Huber () noted a connection between simultaneous smiling in conflict situations and perceived relationship satisfaction.…”

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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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“…A wide body of research demonstrates that clinical interactions are observable at many levels – in the non‐verbal rhythms of interaction, in the postures, gestures and movements of the speakers (Tschacher and Dauwalder, 2003); in their facial expression (Beebe, 2004; Beebe et al ,, 2005, Benecke et al ., 2005; Benecke and Krause, 2005); and at the verbal level, in the talk itself (Lepper and Mergenthaler, 2005, 2007, 2008). This study focuses on the turn‐by‐turn talk of a therapist and patient, using transcripts as data.…”

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The pragmatics of therapeutic interaction: An empirical study

Lepper

2009

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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The research reported in this article aims to demonstrate a method for the systematic study of the therapist/patient interaction in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, drawing upon the tradition and methods of 'pragmatics'--the study of language in interaction. A brief introduction to the discipline of pragmatics demonstrates its relevance to the contemporary focus of clinical theory on the here-and-now dynamics of the relationship between analyst and patient. This is followed by a detailed study of five segments from the transcript of a therapeutic dialogue, drawn from a brief psychoanalytic psychotherapy, in which therapist and patient negotiate the meaning of the patient's symptom: Is it psychosomatic? The research seeks to show how the therapeutic process can be observed and studied as an interactional achievement, grounded in general and well-studied procedures through which meaning is intersubjectively developed and shared. Implications of the analysis for clinical theory and practice, and further research, are discussed.

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Nonverbal relationship regulation in psychotherapy

Cited by 60 publications

References 7 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

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

The pragmatics of therapeutic interaction: An empirical study

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